HEALTH bosses will press ahead with proposals to radically overhaul how services are provided to patients despite a warning it could be “difficult to deliver” a three-year plan.
Someone reaching retirement age now can expect to live almost another two decades, says Brian Sloan, so let’s make Scotland the best place to grow older
HEALTH bosses are being urged to expand the critical care unit at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital after an audit report found it had the worst delayed discharge rates in Scotland for the second year running.
A row has erupted over the placement of “outdated” advertising still advising parents to take their youngsters to the delayed Sick Kids hospital on the side of buses in the Capital - despite claims all signage was removed last month.
A ban on strip clubs in Edinburgh would not be a victory for feminism but instead an act that will force dancers to the unregulated underworld, strippers claim.
A nurse at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Morningside has accused fellow NHS employees of “selfishly abusing parking” by “stealing spots” from disabled patients and staff.
Health boards across Scotland are reviewing the clinical records of patients who received treatment from a bogus psychiatrist, who fooled NHS bosses across the UK for 22 years despite having no qualifications.
A mum who has battled the government and the NHS to access potentially life-saving drugs for her son has launched a fundraising appeal to help pay for the medicine.
EDINBURGH and the Lothians are leading the way in Scotland’s population boom with more births than deaths last year as well as more people coming to live in the area.
BOSSES at Mossmorran Chemical Plant are to temporarily halt operations after days of 'unplanned flaring' at the controversial site attracted hundreds of complaints.
Sewage water has flooded the home of an Edinburgh woman for the second time in two years after Scottish Water failed to fix blocked drains connected to her basement flat.
More than 1,200 people have signed a petition after a women's health brand claimed Edinburgh Fringe bosses banned them from flying a vagina-shaped balloon over the Capital as part of a campaign.
