Supernurses ‘wasted on wards’
Specialist nurses are being sent back to do ward duties as part of a cost-cutting drive at Scotland’s largest health board. To view the full story from The Herald click here.

Health scheme on brink of collapse
Glasgow’s pioneering model of merging social work and frontline healthcare to save hundreds of millions of pounds is on the verge of collapse, The Herald can reveal. To view the full story from The Herald click here.

Scots hospital is ordered to improve hygiene
One of Scotland’s premier hospitals has been ordered to improve after inspectors criticised its cleanliness and state of repair. To view the full story from The Herald click here.

Hygiene inspector shocked at dirty hospitals
Scotland ’s first hospital inspector says she is disappointed by the poor standard of cleaning she has uncovered on NHS wards. To view the full story from The Herald click here.

Work starts on £840m NHS hospital
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has officially marked the beginning of the biggest NHS hospital build project ever undertaken in Scotland with a promise that it will provide a “shot in the arm” for the local economy. To view the full story from The Herald click here.

Hospitals to cut A&E numbers
HOSPITAL bosses are being told to cut the number of patients being seen in accident and emergency departments across Scotland by tens of thousands. To view the full story from the Evening Times click here.

Patients face 5-year wait for hospital
The gap between the closure of the Queen Mum’s maternity and the opening of a new children’s hospital to replace Yorkhill has widened to at least five years. To view the full story from the Evening Times click here.

Oz firm wins hospital deal
A £550MILLION contract to build Scotland's largest hospital has been awarded to the firm behind the new Wembley Stadium, health officials are set to announce. To view the full story in the Evening Times click here.

Superbug kills 28 at city hospital
TWENTY-EIGHT patients have been killed by the superbug clostridium difficile at a Glasgow hospital, it was revealed today. To view the full story in the Evening Times, click here.

Lost in the system: pensioner denied privacy as she died
Yesterday the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman strongly criticised Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board for their failure to communicate appropriately with the family, inadequate care and the lack of dignity shown to a patient.To view the full story in the Herald, click here.

£6m ‘super kitchens’ to boost hospital food
HEALTH chiefs in Glasgow are to spend £6million on new centralised "super-kitchens" to improve hospital food standards. To view the full story in the Evening Times, click here.

Patients rate clean wards above nursing care
PATIENTS are so concerned about the threat of hospital superbugs they rate clean wards and good hand hygiene by staff above the standard of care they receive. To view the full story in the Evening Times, click here.

Private firm paid £3m but NHS patients ‘not treated’
A row over using private centres to help cut NHS waiting times has deepened after a report by academics found the company running the only such facility in Scotland may have been paid up to £3m for patients who did not receive treatment. To view the full story in The Herald click here.

3-year delay for new sick kids’ hospital
GLASGOW'S new £100m children's hospital to replace Yorkhill Sick Kids will not open until at least four years after the Queen Mother's Maternity has closed and moved to the Southern General. To view the full story in The Evening Times click here.

£100m 'new Victoria Infirmary' opens its doors
The £100m replacement for the Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary has opened its doors to show staff its facilities. To view the full story in The Herald click here.

Hospital gets £1m delivery
A £1.1MILLION MRI scanner has been delivered to the new Victoria Hospital which will improve patient services. To view the full story in The Evening Times click here.

£2m bill for city health board taxis
Figures revealed to the Evening Times show NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde spent £1,927,996 on contract cabs in the year to April 2008. In 2006/07 the total was £1,663,533. To view the full story in The Evening Times click here.

NHS car parks rake in £1m . . . but fees are £4000 short of covering the costs
PATIENTS, visitors and health workers have had to pay nearly £1million to park at Glasgow's hospitals since charges were introduced last year. To view the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Patients get own rooms in hospital
ALL new hospitals in Scotland will have to provide single rooms for every patient under new health rules announced today. To view the full story in The Evening Times click here.

22,000 back GPs in fight over city health workers
DOCTORS from Glasgow have delivered a petition signed by almost 22,000 people to the Scottish Parliament protesting at changes in the way health visitors work. To view the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Scottish hospitals ‘failing stroke patients’
Hospitals across Scotland are failing to give the timely care and treatment which can save the lives of stroke patients, an official audit revealed yesterday. To view the full story in The Herald click here.

A new health service partnership
Patients feel the NHS "is doing things to them instead of for them", according to Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon. Her Patients' Rights Bill, which was launched yesterday, aims to bring the public and the health service together and enshrine in law what people can expect of their NHS and how they can be more involved in their own care. To view the full story in The Herald click here.

Call for probe into surge in C.diff deaths
A SURGE in the number of deaths linked to the Clostridium difficile superbug has sparked calls for a public inquiry. To view the full story in the Evening Times click here.

City failing to hit targets for day surgery
GLASGOW'S hospitals have defended their record after failing to hit day surgery targets set more than 10 years ago. To view the full story in the Evening Times click here.

Parking Charges Axed
CAR parking charges at Scottish hospitals are to be abolished. The only exception in Glasgow is the Royal Infirmary multi-storey car park, which was built under the Private Finance Initiative. To view the full story in the Evening Times click here.

SPT boss in hospital car chaos claim
A MASSIVE new hospital in the south of Glasgow will cause traffic gridlock over a large part of the city unless urgent action is taken. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Heart attack A&E care to be centralised at two hospitals
Patients suffering severe heart attacks in the west of Scotland are to be taken to just two key hospitals - passing all other A&E departments. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

PFI scheme branded ‘rip-off’
THE private funding scheme behind a flagship Lanarkshire hospital has been branded a "rip-off" after it was revealed investors can make more than 17 times their money back. To read the full story in The Evening Times, click here.

Ambulance service 'at breaking point'
Scotland's ambulance service is chronically short of funding and struggling to cope, according to GPs. To read the full story in The Herald, click here.

Plans unveiled of upgrade for Glasgow’s Southern General
Work on a £28m extension to the maternity unit at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow is expected to start next month after the city council granted planning approval yesterday. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

£842m price of city’s new Southern General hospital
THE new Southern General superhospital will cost £842million, it was revealed for the first time today. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

PARKING FURY: Private company sells off spaces at hospital
A PRIVATE firm is selling parking spaces at a Glasgow hospital to anyone who wants them. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Experts cast doubt on study backing A&E cuts
Medical leaders have signalled a major shift in their position on the centralisation of hospital services - casting fresh doubt on the drive to cut accident and emergency departments across Scotland. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

Hospital bosses told: Cut parking fees now!
THE £3 maximum daily charge for hospital parking must be implemented "without delay", Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon ordered today. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Go-ahead for city’s £100m hospital
HERE is the first glimpse of how Glasgow's new Southern General 'superhospital' will look. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Scheme to shut A&Es strongly criticised in review
Official reports will today deal a devastating blow to the drive to close accident and emergency departments across Scotland. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

Doctors seek overhaul of ‘high cost, low value’ PFI hospitals
The British Medical Association has condemned PFI hospitals as "high cost, low value" schemes, in a submission to MSPs.To read the full story in The Herald click here.

Warning of crisis in NHS out of hours services
Out-of-hours medical cover for Scots patients is "not sustainable" in its current form because nearly all of the country's GPs have opted to stop making house calls when their surgeries are closed. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

Campaigners: study backs case against closing A&Es
Campaigners for the retention of local A&E services last night seized on a new study which appears to back up claims that greater centralisation could risk lives. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

NHS ‘blunders’ kill half-a-million Scots
NHS failings have resulted in the deaths of almost half-a-million Scots over the past 30 years, says a shock new report. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Cuts in the community: the battle for our hospitals
Nell McFadden campaigned to save emergency services at her nearest hospital without ever imagining she would need them herself. Then, on January 7, the Gourock pensioner woke up with pains in her stomach. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

Surgeon’s Holyrood fight for the Vicky
A SURGEON today announced he is standing for the Scottish Parliament in protest at NHS changes. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Cost-saving claims for PFI are ‘based on biased evidence’
Treasury claims that private finance initiatives save money are based on flawed and biased evidence, according to a report by Scottish researchers. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

You’re on the road to a £10m bill, NHS told
THE health service will have to contribute up to £10million to improve roads if it wants to build a superhospital in Govan, it was claimed today. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Anger over parking fees at hospitals
HOSPITAL car parking charges will be enforced across Glasgow from April, despite a storm of protest from health campaigners and politicians. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.

Fears of 25% cuts at flagship new children’s hospital
Senior doctors fear the size of Scotland's flagship new children's hospital is to be cut by up to one-quarter amid soaring building costs. To read the full story in The Herald click here.

Health boards accused of spending £5,000,000 on taxis
HEALTH boards in the West of Scotland have been accused of spending more than £5million on taxis in the past five years. To read the full story in The Evening Times click here.