Category: Health & Social Care

A new blueprint for smart homes could help people in rural Scotland live healthier lives, whilst tackling fuel poverty and cutting carbon emissions. Developed by the Digital Health & Care...

A doctor in Glasgow has worked with an academic to develop a virtual reality training tool to help children and their parents manage better manage kidney dialysis at home. Dr...

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,...