Category: Health & Social Care

A Scottish health board has now completed over 5,000 operations using robotic-assisted surgery – with an 83-year-old Renfrewshire man one of the latest to benefit from the continued rollout of...

Princess Anne has visited a cutting-edge NHS urgent care facility outside Glasgow to see how teams of clinicians are working to reduce pressure on hospital services. The Princess Royal visited...

NHS Western Isles has emerged as the ‘top-performing’ health board for Hospital at Home services, according to new figures from Public Health Scotland. The health board had the highest rate...

Western Isles Council has received a local government ‘platinum’ award for completing an analogue to digital telecare transition project. The local authority – known in Gaelic as Comhairle nan Eilean...

A new wearable device that dispenses medication under the skin could help save heart failure patients from lengthy hospital stays, researchers have found. University of Glasgow-led trials found that a...

A Glasgow-founded online pharmacy is partnering with Holland & Barrett – the high street health and wellbeing retailer – to offer its store customers access to weight management services. Phlo,...

A Glasgow firms’s AI software has delivered up to 100 per cent accuracy in detecting childhood sleep apnoea in ground-breaking clinical trials. Seluna’s platform was used in sleep studies involving...

Surgeons in Glasgow will be able to treat more people using robotics thanks to a large donation by a patient who underwent colorectal cancer surgery. The anonymous patient donated £800,000...