NHS in Scotland handed £10 million to improve cancer waiting times

Vale of Leven’s minor injuries unit, four people were forced to wait for more than eight hours for urgent treatment. Dumbarton MSP and Scottish Labour’s health spokesperson, Jackie Baillie insists urgent action must be taken to stop the figure spiralling out of control.

Glasgow teacher who claims’ women will die’ over delays in vital hospital treatment. Rachel Lees has been left waiting more than seven months for a cancer screening that should have been arranged within eight weeks.

knives allegedly stolen from a supermarket.

blade-like weapons that he strapped to his hands. Safe cracker Ovidiu Dinu, 32, serving a two-year-and-eight-month term at HMP Grampian, had "struggled to adjust" to life behind bars, a court heard.

BBC passenger Chris Clotworthy, who had been traveling home from Glasgow, said code words were announced over the ship intercom. He said: "The boat did a complete 180 degree turn and looked to be heading back to Scotland, this was when it was level with Blackhead (in County Antrim).

Aberfeldy is aspiring to be ‘Scotland’s Healthiest Town’, where residents get the full benefit of living among hills, riverside walks and accessing support from each other. Local health professionals in the Highland Perthshire town are concerned about the number of people suffering from low energy, poor sleep, low mood, diabetes, heart and stroke disease, lung disease and cancer.

Get the latest Scotland Now stories sent straight to your inbox with our twice-weekly newsletter.An NHS chief has said that clearing the backlog of hospital operations will take years 'will take years'.Professor Caroline Hiscox, who is the chief executive of NHS Grampian, said the current workload from the rising numbers from the coronavirus pandemic has left staff "exhausted".NHS Grampian is urging people in the region to help relieve pressure on the health service, reminding patients they

NHS Lanarkshir e Heather Knox described a dire situation with people visiting accident and emergency units on the rise leaving staff unable to cope. As a result of the increased pressures on services the health board may need to "pull back on some of our elective care services".A gold command meeting is expected to take place today where solutions will be identified in order to keep the situation under control as much as possible.

coronavirus pandemic. Aimie Morrison has been hailed as 'inspirational' for her note to Highland health bosses, telling medics 'your work is paying off' and that there is 'light at the end of the tunnel'.

West Lothian, tragically took her own life in May 2020 aged just 24 following a battle with mental health. Despite being admitted to hospital on a number of occasions, Olivia's devastated mum Elaine Johnstone, 55, said her daughter never got the help she needed.Young Olivia spent three months in St John's Hospital from April to June 2018 but was placed on a long waiting list for psychiatric help when she came home.

Jason Leitch today admitted delays to contact tracing “potentially does lead to a bigger spread of the virus ” across the country.

Get the latest Scottish parenting news sent straight to your inbox each week with our newsletter.The region’s top health chief has committed to tackling the region’s shocking mental health service waiting times which see young people in crisis wait more than a year for help.NHS Forth Valley chief executive Cathie Cowan has vowed that the health board was taking action to arrest the poor state of the Child and Adult Mental Health (CAMHS) services in Forth Valley - which have the longest waiting

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Prince William smiles down at his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, as he joins her during her official visit to Scotland on Monday morning (June 28).

dog died as a result of his neglect. Police raised concern after two dogs were discovered at the Wishaw property of 19-year-old Jordan Edment and described as “skin and bones”.

sexual violence. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Record, Sarah-Jane Davidson has revealed how Paul Hill, 55, used psychological terror against her – depriving her of sleep and even drowning the family’s pet parakeet.Beast Hill raped her two weeks after she gave birth to their son and forced her to have sex with him before allowing her to go to work.