The Latest Breaking News from Public Health Scotland

New early-detection system to allow drug users to flag up bad batches of pills and overdose clusters

The RADAR project, run by Public Health Scotland, is designed to help battle our calamitous overdose crisis by identifying where urgent action should be immediately centred.

Daily Record · Jun 22, 2022

Public health expert rubbishes Tory claim minimum alcohol pricing 'isn't working'

Tory MSP Sandesh Gulhane claimed the policy isn't working and that some were forgoing food in favour of expensive booze, but one expert did not…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 21, 2022

Scotland's poorest five times more likely to die of alcohol-related causes

A new report found "stark inequalities" in alcohol-related hospital stays and deaths in Scotland.

Daily Record · Jun 21, 2022

Scotland has 13 confirmed monkeypox cases as health chiefs investigate links

Public Health Scotland say the cases have been identified in laboratories, but they have not identified a common link between them as of yet.

Daily Record · Jun 16, 2022

Covid cases in Scotland - everything we know about 'uncertain' rise in infection

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics Covid study show a rise in the estimated number of people with the virus compared to the week previous.

Daily Record · Jun 15, 2022

Minimum pricing helping Scotland overcome alcohol pandemic according to Dumbarton charity chief

Mags Mackenzie of Dumbarton Area Council on Alcohol (DACA) spoke out after Public Health Scotland published a report into the impact minimum unit pricing (MUP) was having.

Daily Record · Jun 14, 2022

Over 50,000 hospital bed days lost in Dundee in past five years, latest figures reveal

The problem is due mainly to delayed discharge caused by lack of care-home space or social work involvement.

Daily Record · Jun 13, 2022

Monkeypox cases in Scotland reach 12 as two more patients with virus confirmed

Public Health Scotland have confirmed that two new cases have been discovered in Scotland, taking the total to 12 and the total for the whole of the UK reaching 366.

Edinburgh Live · Jun 10, 2022

Scotland has 12 confirmed cases of Monkeypox as health chiefs issue isolation guidance

The UK Health Security Agency are asking confirmed cases to isolate and help to prevent the spread of infection.

Daily Record · Jun 10, 2022

Scots parents say Covid pandemic has impacted kids' behaviour and mental health

The most recent data shows around three in 10 children experienced difficulties with their emotions, behaviours and mental health.

Daily Record · Jun 9, 2022