More help needs to be given to Scots whose mental health has suffered as a result of the financial crisis, public health minister Shona Robison said.

John McCallister MLA, Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson for Health Social Services and Public Safety, has challenged the DUP to start making more constructive contributions to health service debates. The DUP tabled a motion today which called on the Health Minister to urgently review the recruitment process in the Health Service. However, Mr. McCallister contended that the DUP did not come up wit...

The National Health Service will not be spared the efficiency savings which the Government will impose on the entire public sector, Health Secretary warns.

So on the very last day of Assembly business out go health trusts and local health boards and in come seven new bodies who'll run the health service in Wales ... just like they did when I lived in a place called South Glamorgan and before terms like service providers and health commissioning had ever been coined. Out go any plans to prevent patients in North Wales to cross the border to receive ne...

…the NHS in England is set to run up a substantial surplus, for the second year running. Public health campaigners say it represents a fantastic opportunity for the health service to invest in innovative services to improve health. November 2008-the NHS has returned to financial balance, delivering a surplus of £510 million in 2006/07, and is on course to achieve a surplus in 2007/08.' June 200...

Last week, it was announced that the workforce in the National Health Service had increased to 1,368,200 by September 2008, a rise of more than 27 per cent in a decade. This should be of little surprise to anyone, given the fact that we are all living longer and that there is increased pressure on the health service to provide more staff to cope with the higher demand from patients. The critical q...

A political row has broken out over health funding as the National Health Service forecast a £1.75bn surplus for the current financial year

Ulster Unionist health spokesperson John McCallister has told the DUP to stop playing politics with the Health Service following comments made by Edwin Poots which claimed the DUP has stepped up its Assembly campaign against cuts to the Health Service.

One of Britain's foremost analysts and commentators on our Health Service, Roy Lilley, warned of the disastrous consequences for Surrey's health service if the coalition's proposals go ahead. Lilley a former mayor of Camberley who describes himself as a left leaning Tory was speaking to Politicos Surrey Health's unique non party political discussion group on Friday in a panel i...

Public health experts claim that proposed changes to the health service would cause 'irreparable harm' to the service