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This is who is eligible for a 2023 autumn Covid-19 booster

The number of people to be offered the Covid-19 booster jab in the autumn has been scaled back, health officials have announced.

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Asthma and heart disease treatments approved for use on NHS in Scotland

TREATMENTS for patients with heart disease and those with severe asthma have been approved for use on the NHS in Scotland.

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Dumfries and Galloway cancer patient waited nearly a year to begin treatment

New figures also show nearly one in five of cancer patients in Dumfries and Galloway weren’t able to start treatment within two months

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Likely to be 'major disruption' from junior doctor strikes, says Humza Yousaf

The First Minister has said there will likely be “major disruption” as a result of action taken by junior doctors over pay increases this…

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First Minister to chair meeting on junior doctor strike contingencies

The strikes, Humza Yousaf said, would likely cause ‘major disruption’ to NHS services.

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Independence is 'key to protecting' NHS Scotland, say SNP ahead of it's 75th birthday

INDEPENDENCE is “key to protecting” the NHS in Scotland, the SNP has said ahead of the health service’s 75th anniversary.

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Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman says country 'could have been better prepared' for Covid

In a stop-start hearing at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Jeane Freeman admitted there were areas in which the country could have been more ready for the pandemic.

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Three more Glasgow venues to reopen for the first time since the pandemic

A further three Glasgow Life venues will be reopening in the coming weeks after being closed during the pandemic while they were used as vaccination centres by NHS Scotland.

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North Lanarkshire man benefits from pioneering new approach to heart surgery

Heart specialists at NHS Golden Jubilee are cutting out one of the ‘longest incisions in surgery’ from routine operations, giving patients a quicker, and almost pain-free, recovery.

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NHS Forth Valley's agency staff spend set to be cut back

Prudent NHS Forth Valley health chiefs are doubling down on the need to cut back on agency nurses as they aim to rein in their spending post-pandemic. The NHS Scotland nursing agency spend for 2023-24 is projected to be around £200million. Based on

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West Lothian optometrist selected to deliver NHS healthcare glaucoma policy

Just 30 optometrists have been selected from across Scotland to deliver NHS Scotland’s new Community Glaucoma Service.

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Scottish NHS boards asked to draw up contingency plans in case junior doctors strike

NHS boards in Scotland have been asked to draw up contingency plans in case junior doctors go on strike, the Health Secretary said.

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Junior doctors in Scotland vote overwhelmingly to strike

A 72-hour walkout is being prepared for at a later date - should government negotiations break down

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Junior Doctors in Scotland vote overwhelmingly to strike, BMA says

Members of BMA Scotland voted overwhelmingly to strike, with 97% of those who took part in the ballot backing the walkout, the union said on Friday. Turnout was 71%.

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Junior doctors in Scotland vote overwhelmingly to strike, BMA says

Members of BMA Scotland voted overwhelmingly to strike, with 97% of those who took part in the ballot backing the walkout, the union said on Friday.

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Junior doctors urged to back strike action in battle for higher pay

BMA members in Scotland will receive a ballot on Wednesday asking them whether they want to go on strike.

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Scots junior doctors threaten three-day walk out in pay dispute

BMA Scotland’s junior doctor committee says junior doctors’ pay has been eroded over 15 years.

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Dumfries and Galloway healthcare workers accept new pay offer

Members of the Unison and GMB Scotland unions have voted to take the latest deal on offer from the Scottish Government

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NHS Scotland's largest union votes to accept Scottish Government pay offer

The pay offer, made to 160,000 NHS staff, equates to an average 6.5 per cent increase.

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Scottish nurse with long Covid left destitute and begging for handouts

One hospital staff member who was working in Edinburgh at the start of the pandemic in 2020, said: “Unless I have some financial miracle this year, I will likely not see another Christmas.”

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Sturgeon’s successor ‘cannot survive’ without resolving NHS workforce crisis, Scottish Labour warns

Warnings come as an Audit Scotland report said recruitment targets were ‘unlikely to be met’

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Sturgeon’s successor must prioritise NHS workforce crisis – Labour

The warnings come as an Audit Scotland report recently said recruitment targets were “unlikely to be met”.

Daily Record

Scotland becomes first country to stop hospitals using climate-damaging anaesthetic

Hospitals in Scotland will no longer use desflurane for surgery - which has a global warming potential 2500 times higher than carbon dioxide.

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Anaesthetic withdrawn from use in NHS Scotland due to environmental impact

Desflurane is a gas potentially more harmful for the environment than carbon dioxide.

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NHS Scotland pay boost offer would make staff 'best paid in UK', says Humza Yousaf

Yousaf said the deal meant NHS Scotland workers were 'by far and away the best paid anywhere in the UK'.

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