The Latest Breaking News from Humza Yousaf

Nicola Sturgeon urged to scrap plans for National Care Service over cost warnings

Alex Cole-Hamilton, the Scottish Lib Dems leader, claimed centralising care services would create a "billion pound bureaucracy" at a time public spending was already being cut.

Daily Record · Nov 21, 2022

Health secretary should be 'sacked' for NHS Ayrshire & Arran's A&E wait times

South Scotland Regional List MSPs Sharon Dowey and Colin Smyth, have both told how Humza Yousaf should be sacked for his ‘mismanagement’ of the lengthy waiting times.

Daily Record · Nov 20, 2022

Urgent deal must be struck with unions to save Scotland's NHS from winter chaos

A failure to improve the roundly rejected pay offer could bring the health service to its knees, writes Record View.

Daily Record · Nov 16, 2022

Calls to sack Yousaf over nurse strikes are 'political games', says Nicola Sturgeon

OPPOSITION parties are playing "political" games with their calls to sack Scotland's Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The National (Scotland) · Nov 14, 2022

Scottish Ambulance Service staff set strike date in pay dispute

Some union members are already planning to work to rule from 25 November

Insider UK · Nov 14, 2022

Union leader accuses UK Government of ‘deliberately running down’ NHS amid pay row

Christina McAnea, general secretary of Unison, said she fears the path is being laid for an “organisation” to be appointed to take over the NHS

The National (Scotland) · Nov 13, 2022

Health ministers in Wales and Scotland call on UK government to fund bigger NHS rises

"We all need to do all we can to avert industrial action in any form," argue Eluned Morgan and Scotland's Humza Yousaf

Wales Online · Nov 13, 2022

Patient lives put at risk over staffing shortages in Scots NHS, leading nurse warns

Julie Lamberth, chair of the Royal College of Nursing Scotland board, said nurses are leaving the health service over pay

Daily Record · Nov 13, 2022

UK has 'moral obligation' to give devolved nations more cash to fund NHS pay rises

The Health Secretary told the BBC: "I don't have more money."

The National (Scotland) · Nov 13, 2022

Humza Yousaf asks Tory UK Health Secretary for more money to avert strike action

Ambulance workers in Scotland on Friday voted to take strike action for one day on November 28.

Daily Record · Nov 13, 2022