Graeme Eunson News Today

Recruitment companies controlled by a billionaire Conservative donor and peer have received tens of millions of pounds in taxpayers’ money from scores of public sector bodies across Scotland over the past three years, with the Scottish Government and the besieged NHS two of the biggest spenders, an investigation by Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

A top doctor has admitted he would be "very anxious" if his own family needed emergency care given the pressure the NHS is currently under.

A row over the number of NHS senior doctors has seen a leading union claim there's been zero progress by the Scottish Government.

NHS Ayrshire and Arran reported the single longest consultant vacancy with a post empty for nine years. Responses by health board. NHS Highland did not respond to FOI NHS Tayside, which has faced scrutiny over its mental health services, reported than 10 out of its 15 re-advertised consultant vacancies were for psychiatrist posts. In Dumfries and Galloway, the health board said it had advertised for two elderly care consultants on 24 separate occasions without a single applicant, and for...

A medical body says NHS Scotland will not recover from the pandemic if senior staff cannot be retained.

Dr Graeme Eunson (inset) said many senior consultants,who entered the profession in the 1990s, had run out of gas SCOTLAND’S health service is facing a “perfect storm” of huge waiting list backlogs and consultant vacancies which are more than double official estimates, according to a new report. Freedom of information research by BMA Scotland suggests that just over 15 per cent of consultant posts are empty once vacancies which are not being advertised or which health boards have “t...

Retaining senior doctors will be essential if the Scottish NHS is to recover from the coronavirus crisis because the health service is already…