A proposal for a national social work agency to provide a national standard for that area of care is also expected to pass.

The SNP Government has ditched plans for a national care service despite spending nearly £30m on the doomed shake-up.

The Scottish Government’s flagship plans to set up a National Care Service has been scrapped - with watered down plans for an advisory board tabled in its place.

RACHEL Reeves will relax rules for non-domiciled residents in order to help them avoid paying UK taxes – saying she has been ...

Taxpayers have shelled out nearly £1bn on agency nurses and locum doctors to assist the crisis-hit NHS. The sums spent on ...

The Scottish Government has dropped proposals for a National Care Service. Social care minister Maree Todd told MSPs on Thursday the plan to create a central national care board in Scotland will no ...

The Scottish Government has abandoned its flagship National Care Service plan after losing support in Holyrood. Social Care Minister Maree ...

The Scottish Government has rolled back on plans for its National Care Service in the face of widespread opposition. The post-Covid initiative was announced by Nicola Sturgeon's administration as a ...

Read about how much NHS Scotland health boards have spent on agency nurses in the last six years, and how nurse leaders have reacted.

The Scottish Government said the spend was a ‘tiny fraction’ of the health service’s £10 billion staffing costs.

More than £900 million has been spent on agency nurses and locum doctors in Scotland’s NHS since 2019. The SNP is now being ...

The SNP has been urged to “urgently improve NHS recruitment” after it was revealed there has been over £900 million spent on temporary nurses and consultants since 2019.