The prime minister said a new agreement has been signed with the private sector to "make the spaces, the facilities and resources of private hospitals more readily available to the NHS".

NHS AYRSHIRE and Arran has issued a warning about the risks of tattoos and body art. The public health team is working with environmental health in East, North, and South Ayrshire to highlight the ...

The contributions made by NHS Ayrshire & Arran staff is set to be recognised as this year’s Ayrshire Achieves award scheme is launched. Nominations are not open to all staff and volunteers in NHS ...

More NHS hubs will be set up in community locations and there will be greater use of the private sector to help reduce hospital waiting lists in England, the prime minister has said. Sir Keir ...

Scots foods such as Scottish wild salmon and Ayrshire new potatoes have been given protected status in Japan in a bid to stop counterfeiters. The products will now be safeguarded against imitation ...

Plans for an upgraded NHS App to allow more patients in England to book treatments and appointments will be part of a package of measures unveiled by the government on Monday. The changes will ...

Hundreds of thousands of patients will be able to get directly referred and booked in for tests, checks and scans by their GP for a range of conditions as part of a radical new plan set to be launched ...

Starmer expected to argue that cutting backlog of routine operations will boost economy by getting people back to work. But critics are running out of patience Sir Keir Starmer’s speech next ...

It’s not an unusual sight in Britain. Official NHS figures reveal at least one in four people had to wait more than four hours to be seen in A&E in November. More than 45,000 patients were ...

NHS Ayrshire and Arran reported ants in the maternity department, maggots in the dining room and a mouse running around the X-ray waiting room. In Greater Glasgow and Clyde, there were 61 call ...