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John Swinney has backed Humza Yousaf to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's next first minister.

Junior doctors in Scotland are getting paid the same as sandwich shop baristas with many taking on second jobs to get by, their union has warned.

SNP leadership contender Kate Forbes’ husband attended a private Tory hustings in the race to elect the next Conservative leader.

Mesh campaigners claim Health Secretary Humza Yousaf refused to meet them to hear their concerns. Patients blame surgical mesh products for leaving them disabled and in chronic pain and want the Scottish Government to hold an independent review into the use of the products.

Calls have been made for unused wards at the Vale of Leven Hospital to help “tackle the worst NHS winter crisis in living memory.”

Scotland's largest health board has announced it is suspending non-urgent procedures as it prioritises urgent treatment and cancer care. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) released a statement on Wednesday, January 11, stating that elective surgeries will be paused due to the 'major pressures' that the health board is facing.

Embattled Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced extra social care funding in a desperate bid to free up hospital beds.

The NHS in Scotland has been left "fighting for its life" as new figures revealed the pressure on A&E wards during the festive season.

Nicola Sturgeon will today face questions on the winter pressures facing the NHS in Scotland.

A former SNP health secretary has warned the Scottish Government not to impose a pay deal on nurses or risk making an NHS staffing crisis "10 times worse".

A top doctor has warned "there is no way that the NHS in Scotland can survive" in its current form as he called for a national conversation on the future of the health service.

Former patients of a disgraced surgeon are set to protest at a hospital where his botched operations left them with life-changing conditions.

Scotland's struggling health services cannot improve without tax increases for higher earners, Humza Yousaf has said as he claimed emergency departments will start to recover after winter.

Scottish ministers are considering drafting in the military to carry out firefighter duties if a strike goes ahead, the Daily Record can reveal.

Three boys aged 11, 10 and eight have died after being pulled from an icy lake in Solihull on Sunday, West Midlands Police has said.

Health chiefs have warned of antibiotic shortages across Scotland because of soaring Strep A infections nationwide.

Strep A has been confirmed at a number of Scottish schools yesterday. The NHS issued warnings after clusters were found at schools across Ayrshire, as Humza Yousaf said the number of infections in Scotland had increased.

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has told Scots “I am sorry” over long waits for ­treatment in our crisis-hit NHS.

The Scottish Government should ban the use of zero hour contracts in health and social care jobs if it wants to solve a recruitment crisis, campaigners have claimed.

Doctors were forced to keep patient records on pieces of paper and emails after a huge cyber attack crippled critical Scots NHS systems.

NHS staff have been offered a "final" improved pay offer by the Scottish Government following days of negotiations with trade unions.

Senior NHS bosses have reportedly discussed making wealthier Scots pay for treatment as the health service struggles to meet demand.

Humza Yousaf has written to the UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay asking for more funding to help avert industrial action later this winter.

NHS senior managers have spent over £350million on agency staff in just 20 months, the Sunday Mail can reveal.

John Swinney has blamed "stupid economic decisions" made by the UK Government for fuelling inflation that is leaving all workers poorer.

The ongoing lengthy waits in A&E departments have been described as a “humanitarian crisis”.

Senior nursing official has 'little confidence' in acceptable pay offer being made from from the Scottish Government.

Health and social care workers will no longer require weekly tests for Covid-19 as asymptomatic testing pauses from Wednesday.

Humza Yousaf has been accused of being "missing in action" as waiting times at A&E departments in Scotland hit the worst monthly level on record.

More than three-quarters of doctors who took part in a recent survey have said they are prepared to strike in a pay dispute. The study, undertaken by BMA Scotland, spoke to 3,100 medics north of the border between July 20 and August 5 after a 4.5% offer was rejected.

Letters inviting people for a Covid-19 winter booster jab will be landing on doorsteps this week.

Union bosses have condemned a 4.5% pay rise for NHS medical and dental staff in Scotland as "hugely disappointing".

A further booster vaccine will be offered to those at highest risk of severe Covid-19 symptoms from September, the Scottish Government has announced. Following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), care home residents and staff will be offered a further booster jab.

Cancer treatment waiting times across Ayrshire ‘reveal a system that is suffering’, says an MSP.

While it may not be making headlines like it used to, Covid-19 is still not quite over - and the NHS is offering a second round of boosters to high-risk groups.

The Scottish Government recently announced that 19 projects supporting people with neurological conditions are to benefit from a third round of funding.