National Health Service in Scotland - A detailed analysis of where resources are spent in NHS Scotland

Obesity, poor diet and excessive drinking are still causing unacceptable levels of ill health in Scotland, its chief medical officer warns.

National Health Service in Scotland - Summary of results of patients ready for discharge from a `snapshot` of NHS inpatients by Community Health Partnership at October 2008 census

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon warns that health boards in Scotland will have to make 2.5% to 3% in efficiency savings next year.

Over 40s in Scotland are to get universal health checks, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon tells the SNP conference.

Health Secretary visits San Francisco public health and housing projects.

Most of Scotland's health boards are either opposed to or have doubts about plans for direct health board elections.

The NHS Support Federation's director Paul Evans said: Gordon Brown must accept the right of local people to influence the direction of their health service and to take a different view. Afterall his own constituents in Scotland live under a health system that rejects many of his own market based solutions for the English health service. This

THE SCOTTISH Government confirmed that there will be some implications for Scotland of the UK Department of Health's announcement that it wanted to cut the number of healt

A new report on health funding has given fresh impetus to the SNP's argument that Scotland should have complete control of its own finances.