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First Minister Humza Yousaf.

Humza Yousaf accused of leaving NHS in 'terrible state'

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward. Picture: Jeff Moore/PA Wire

Health board expects to be in deficit for five more years as budget cuts hit

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Criticism of the Scottish Government’s stewardship of NHS Scotland, or indeed any area of devolution, is often met with whataboutery from ministers who assure the Scottish public things are just as bad south of the border.

Analysis: Scottish Government can no longer indulge in whataboutery on NHS

Scottish Labour are predicting 20,000 Scots will die in 2023 while waiting for NHS Treatment.

More than 18,000 Scots died while waiting on NHS treatment, amid private surge

As of March 31, 7,849 Scots had been waiting over two years for inpatient, outpatient or day care treatment from NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland's waiting times 'demonstrably worse' than south of the border

First Minister Humza Yousaf during a visit to Castlebrae Community Campus in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Scottish Government misses huge target pledged by Yousaf as waiting times rise

Medics in the NHS have sounded the alarm on Scotland’s vacancy crisis - with GPs under “immense pressure”, patients in hospitals being ignored by overworked staff, and carers being asked to take blood samples.

Medics lift lid on 'immense pressure' on staff as patients left unattended

First Minister Humza Yousaf tours the recently completed Clarice Pears building during a to visit to the University of Glasgow. Picture: Robert Perry/PA Wire

Labour blasts Humza Yousaf as more than 2,200 Scots wait two years for surgery

The NHS paid out more than £160m in compensation to patients between 2018 and 2022, figures show, with one case involving a baby who died after an improper examination. Pic: Jeff Moore/PA Wire

Millions paid out for botched NHS treatments, including ovary removal

Scotland's junior doctors have threatened strike action similar to that seen south of the border unless its pay restoration demands are met. Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images

NHS medics keep strike threat despite 14.5% pay offer

Health secretary Michael Matheson. Picture: Getty Images

Analysis: Health secretary asks junior doctors to meet him halfway with offer

Junior doctors have been presented with a new pay offer. Picture: Getty Images

Junior doctors offered 14.5% pay rise over two years

Junior doctors take part in a rally in Trafalgar Square during a nationwide strike on April 11, 2023 in London. Junior doctors in England held a 96-hour walkout hoping to achieve full pay restoration after seeing their pay cut by more than a quarter since 2008. Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images

Analysis: Why staffing crisis is in fact 'all about pay', Mr Health Secretary

First Minister Humza Yousaf speaking to staff during his visit to NHS 24's Dundee contact centre. Picture: Euan Cherry/PA Wire

Humza Yousaf commits to investing in nursing staff recruitment

Ambulances sit at the accident and emergency at the Glasgow Royal Hospital. Picture: Getty Images

Proposed National Care Service will help fix ailing NHS, says new health chief

Ambulances sit at the accident and emergency at the Glasgow Royal Hospital. Picture: Getty Images

Corridor care is ‘increasingly common’ in Scotland’s hospitals

More than 75,000 NHS staff have taken absence with mental health issues in the last five years, according to new figures - with the number of absences doubling since 2018.

NHS Scotland: Tens of thousands of staff take sick leave due to mental health

Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary Health and Social Care

NHS on alert for strikes as minister claims staffing issues 'not all about pay'

Junior doctors in Scotland have voted to strike. Picture: PA

Junior doctors vote overwhelmingly to strike in first national walkout

NHS Scotland’s emergency care is “not functioning as it should”, a top medic has claimed

Thousands wait more than 12 hours for emergency care in Scotland

Large numbers of vacancies for health staff are adding to the stresses of the medical professions (Picture: Hannah McKay/PA Wire)

NHS Scotland faces catastrophe without action to recruit and retain staff

Nearly half of all senior hospital doctors in Scotland aged 50 and over intend to retire before normal pension age, according to researchers from the University of Dundee. Picture: PA Wire/PA Images

Half of older doctors plan to retire before pension age

The NHS is in a critical condition and needs help (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Here's yet another warning sign about the existential threat faced by NHS

Alan Lees, director for business, BT in Scotland and Mary Morgan, chief executive of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) at the Jack Copland Centre, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service in Edinburgh. Picture: Jeff Holmes

BT to wire up and 'futureproof' thousands of Scottish NHS sites

Humza Yousaf's claim that waiting times are improving has been challenged. Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Are NHS Scotland waiting times really 'improving', First Minister?

A treatment for advanced breast cancer which could give patients “more precious time” has been approved for use on the NHS in Scotland

Newly-approved NHS drug could give cancer patients “more precious time”

Scottish Labour's Jackie Baillie (Photo by Jane Barlow / POOL / AFP)

Scottish Labour backs merging health boards to 'refocus the NHS'

GP practices are closing across Scotland

GP surgery closures: How safe are Scottish medical practices?

Scientist working with her microscope

'Significant issues' at NHS lab leaves operations at risk of cancellation

A nurse puts on PPE in a ward

Nursing union demands action on NHS Scotland vacancy crisis

Lisa Duthie, Charity Lead; Dennis Robertson, Chair of NHS Grampian Charity Committee and Caroline Hiscox, Chief Executive of NHS Grampian.

Charity announces new name and strategic plan

Scottish Labour has pointed the finger at the SNP over NHS 'workforce crisis'

Labour says more than £26m spent on agency staff amid NHS 'workforce crisis'

A top medic has warned “no practice is safe” after one of Scotland’s largest GP surgeries folded

GP practice closures could lead to the collapse of NHS Scotland, warns top medic

Humza Yousaf has been officially elected as the sixth First Minister of Scotland.

Who's set to replace Humza Yousaf in the toughest job in politics?

Newly elected leader of the Scottish National Party, Humza Yousaf. (Photo by Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

A&E figures: New performance figures are "an embarrassment for Humza Yousaf"

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf's NHS Scotland recovery plan has been criticised in an Audit Scotland report

Improving NHS Scotland is proving “extremely difficult"

The Scottish Parliament building. Picture: Getty Images

Strategy recommends 3.5% pay increase for public sector workers

Edinburgh during recent snowy weather (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

NHS Scotland: A&E waiting times and Covid-19 surged during cold snap

Ellis Beardsmore (they/them), trainee psychotherapist and co-founder of Pride Outside

Go on a journey from confusion to inclusion - Ellis Beardsmore

A snap survey of BMA Scotland junior doctors revealed nearly half (44 per cent) have actively researched leaving the NHS in the last 12 months. Picture by Getty

NHS Scotland: Health service facing 'mass exodus' of doctors

According to the latest Public Health Scotland data, just 65.3 per cent of the 97,659 patient attendances at Scottish emergency departments in January were seen within the Scottish Government’s target of four hours.

Estimated 64 patients die each month due to 'dangerously long waiting times'

Each GP surgery has had an average of 153 extra patients since 2019/20, further impacting the severe pressure being experienced across NHS Scotland

GP patient list sizes grow as number of surgeries dwindles

The number of unfilled vacancies for NHS consultants is higher than the Scottish Government suggests (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Healthcare system in Scotland is on the brink of collapse – Simon Barker

From left: Michelle Lownie of Eden Scott and Loral Quinn of CodeClan. Picture: Killian McAleese.

Digital skills academy CodeClan and recruiter Eden Scott join forces

Accident-and-emergency figures for Scottish hospitals have improved. Picture: John Devlin

A&E departments show improvement against waiting times targets

Former UK health secretary Sajid Javid has suggested patients be charged for visiting GPs or A&E departments (Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP)

Readers' Letters: Javid’s ideas on future of NHS are worrying

In Scotland there is a severe shortage of care placements and hospitals are operating above capacity. Picture: Jeff Moore/PA Wire

Care homes could free up hospital beds 'tomorrow' with more funding

Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown. Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Brown warns NHS 'won't cope' unless inequalities closed

Health secretary Humza Yousaf. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA

Fewer than six in ten people seen in four hours at A&E departments

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during a press conference on winter pressures in the NHS, at St Andrews House in Edinburgh. Picture: PA

Sturgeon claims 'slight easing' of pressures as calls to NHS24 service reduced

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images

Sturgeon will take 'every possible step' as recruitment concerns raised

Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in 2010. The explosion killed 11 workers and polluted the coastline from Louisiana to Florida

Readers' Letters: Fossil fuel extraction is more damaging than wind power

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde on Wednesday apologised to patients as it announced a pause to non-urgent elective procedures

Scotland’s largest health board pauses non-urgent elective care

Dr Andrew Buist from the British Medical Association has warned of 'doctor-light' GP surgeries in deprived parts of Scotland. Picture: PA

Deprived areas will see fewer GPs as health gap widens, warns BMA

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during a press conference on winter pressures in the NHS, at St Andrews House in Edinburgh.

NHS Covid staff told how to claim benefits during Sturgeon press conference

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The RMT includes station staff and train conductors. Picture: John Devlin

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