Neil Gray

Families, friends and colleagues gathered for the 22nd Scottish Police Memorial Trust Service of Remembrance on Wednesday, September, 2.

Edinburgh police officers remembered at annual service of remembrance

Firefighters worked through the night to battle a blaze at Salisbury Crags

Let’s not put city icon Arthur’s Seat at risk - Alex Cole-Hamilton

SNP Health Secretary Neil Gray

Gray’s veto of Cammy Day appointment is sheer hypocrisy - Susan Dalgety

Former council leader Cammy Day

Former council leader Cammy Day blocked from joining NHS Lothian board

Health Secretary Neil Gray says there will be greater clarity over the timeline for the new hospital once NHS Lothian submits the business case

Health Secretary pressed on timeline for promised new eye hospital

Growing demand will make the current Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion 'unsustainable', say patients. Picture: Greg Macvean.

SNP’s sticking plaster approach not working as NHS bleeds dry - Sue Webber

Health Secretary Neil Gray has implemented the formation of a new Scottish Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce to oversee improvements at NHS Lothian’s maternity services

How did city’s crucial maternity service come to be on its knees? - Sue Webber

An artist's impression of the new eye hospital - it won’t be ready until 2031

Fresh call for shovels in the ground at new eye hospital

Serious concerns have been raised by healthcare inspectors about the maternity unit at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary (ERI)

Health inspectors raise serious concerns over ERI maternity care - Susan Dalgety

Health Secretary Neil Gray making his statement to the Scottish Parliament on Edinburgh's maternity services

Damning report on Edinburgh Royal Infirmary maternity services

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Raising awareness for SMA - Sue Webber

Gregor Poynton MP recently visited East Calder Medical Centre with Scottish Labour Party Leader Anas Sarwar to hear from the local campaign group directly.

Livingston Constituency MP presses Health Secretary for clarity on East Calder H...

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Susan Dalgety: Treating strokes faster can save lives – Scotland gets funding cu...

Skin cancer checks.

Scotland’s outpatient appointment waiting lists are growing - Susan Dalgety

Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur speaks tio suppoters ahead of Tuesday's vote for the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill . Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Instead of Assisted Dying Bill let’s strengthen our duty to care - Sue Webber

Call for more independent procedures to prevent repeat of mistakes
Lothian MSP Miles Briggs has called for stronger, more independent procedures to stop any repeat of the mistakes made with Edinburgh's new Sick Kids hospital, which had its opening cancelled at the last minute.
Ian Swanson

Mr Hoy pledged to continue to try to find a long-term solution.

Six-month pause on GP surgery charges

John Withers, Margaret Sherwood, Neil Gray, Jackie Kelly & Daniel Morrison

People across Edinburgh encouraged to get potential symptoms checked earlier.

Martin Whitfield MSP

Looking how to sack unworthy Holyrood MSPs? Join the queue - Susan Dalgety

Minister for Health and Social Care Neil Gray during First Minister's Questions

SNP silence over Fife NHS gender equality row is deafening - Sue Webber

The Scottish Government announced in last week’s Budget that it would fund the new eye hospital.

Neil Gray pressed to give timetable for new eye hospital

Nearly 1,000 diabetes sufferers waiting for life-changing technology

Health Secretary Wes Streeting appears on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (Picture: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire)

No miracle cure for the NHS under Labour and SNP

Scottish Government Be The Early Bird

People in Scotland quick to report a missing delivery but not possible cancer sy...

MSPs Daniel Johnson, Sarah Boyack and Miles Briggs outside the Eye Pavilion

Doctor's blunt warning for Health Secretary on Eye Pavilion closure

Neil Gray refuses to confirm new eye hospital

Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion. Picture: Greg Macvean

Ministerial visit and statement on Eye Pavilion before 6-month closure
Health Secretary Neil Gray and a cross-party group of MSPs are due to visit Edinburgh's Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion on Thursday - just weeks before the hospital closes for six months.
Ian Swanson

Pensioner forced to go private and paid £3,000 for hearing aids

A consumption room, which policy leaders hope will help address the issue of drug deaths. Picture: John Devlin

Neil Gray has wandered off the right course on drug addiction - Sue Webber

Edinburgh South West SNP MP Joanna Cherry has warned against a stitch-up.

Joanna Cherry warns against 'stitch up' over next SNP leader

Rachel Reeves, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, visited Blackpool to unveil Labour's poster campaign on the 'Tory Tax Double Whammy' - pictured with Labour supporters at Blackpool Cricket Club.

Putting our NHS on the road to recovery - Ian Murray

Health Secretary Neil Gray

Thousands on waiting lists may disagree with crisis denial - Sue Webber

MSPs' 'constructive' talks with Health Secretary over eye hospital

Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray during a visit to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow

It didn’t take Neil Gray long to wield the health budget axe - Sue Webber

Neil Gray has been appointed as the Scottish Government's new health secretary. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Humza welcomes ministerial diversity - Angus Robertson

Neil Gray's headache as Scotland's new Health Secretary

Ex-US president Richard Nixon admitted his complicity in the Watergate affair in 1974

We need to safeguard accountability and transparency in politics - Alex Cole-Ham...

SNP leader Humza Yousaf speaks outside the V and A in Dundee. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Under-pressure Yousaf is losing party control - Sue Webber

Sandy Macdonald, outgoing director of public policy and communications, and Sandy Begbie, chief executive, SFE.

£14 billion Scottish finance sector reaches out to world for fresh investment

Neil Gray, the Scottish Government's economy and fair work secretary, David Smith, director of screen at Screen Scotland, Isabel Davis, executive director of Screen Scotland Isabel Davis, and Daisy Mount, scripted director at Prime Video launched new research on the impact of Scotland's film and TV industries at the First Stage Studios in Leith. Picture: Julie Howden

Scottish Government promises action over fair pay and conditions in the arts

Chief entrepreneur Mark Logan: 'By making this connection between health testing and business support, we create an environment for innovation which enables Scottish companies to compete effectively, whilst bringing much-needed treatment solutions to the NHS.'

Tech tie-up promises to boost Scottish health innovation

Lead actors Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal with Charlotte Wells, the writer and director of Aftersun, which opened last year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. Picture: Getty/Euan Cherry

Edinburgh International Film Festival to return as part of one-off EIF edition

The MS Victoria is currently housing Ukrainian refugees who have come to Edinburgh to escape the war in their homeland.

Now ships can plug into electricity at Leith docks

The arts charity which ran the Filmhouse cinema has gone into administration (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Adam McVey is right, we need an arts crisis summit – Susan Dalgety

Millions of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes by Vladimir Putin's invasion (Picture: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images)

Here's yet another example of over-promise, under-deliver by SNP – Susan Dalgety

MS Victoria will give temporary accommodation for 700 Ukrainian refugees.

Labour MSP warns government over refugee ship

MS Victoria. Tallink Ferries

Over 700 refugees to be housed on boat which will be docked in Leith

The Melville Monument in Edinburgh was targeted by protesters when the Black Lives Matter movement emerged two years ago:
Picture: Urquhart Media/BBC

Scotland urged to create new national museum confronting its slave trade history

Underbelly's purple cow venue is one of the most popular venues at the Fringe. Picture: David Scott

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Public funding help for leading venues revealed

A Ukrainian war refugee sits on a camp bed in a sports hall in the small Bavarian village of Eichenau near Munich, southern Germany. Picture: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images

Welcome hubs for refugees set up in three regions of Scotland

Fiona Hyslop MSP and Culture Minister Neil Gray at Linlithgow Palace, with representatives from Historic Environment Scotland.

Fiona Hyslop welcomes Culture Minister to Linlithgow Palace

Brownbear singer Matt Hickman launches 'Scotland on Tour' at The View, in Oban, one of more than 100 venues hosting gigs over the next year.

Nationwide festival to bring musicians to the ‘doorstep’ of fans across Scotland

The Scottish Government is providing funding of £1.5 million to help expand access to coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics in three African countries.

£1.5m to boost Covid vaccine access in three African countries

Ultra-fast EV charging points go live at Harthill services

Anum Qaisar-Javed at Empire School of Dance in Airdrie during campaigning for the Airdrie and Shotts by-election.

Scotland’s newest MP takes her seat in the House of Commons

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