NHS Ayrshire and Arran is facing "significant pressures" after figures revealed that more than a third of patients waited more than four hours at A&E.

EXCLUSIVE: The First Minister's recent set-piece events tackled a range of big issues - but independence wasn't one of them.

The Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors has a new leader at the helm: don't miss this exclusive Q&A with Ryan Swinney ...

John Swinney has warned local authorities raising council tax by 10 per cent is "too high". The First Minister said councils had been privately "welcoming" their budget funding from the Scottish ...

First Minister John Swinney claimed the Tories are trying to mimic Reform in a bid to avoid losing voters to Nigel Farage’s party (Jane Barlow/PA) Scotland’s First Minister has said there is ...

John Swinney has warned local authorities raising council tax by 10 per cent is "too high". The First Minister said councils had been privately "welcoming" their budget funding from the Scottish ...

First Minister’s claim about rise of green sources of power ‘reeks of SNP secrecy and cover-up’, say Tories John Swinney claimed that Scotland’s electricity consumption that came from ...

John Swinney is quizzed on his plans for the NHS by opposition party leaders Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay wants to know when a long promised NHS app and new treatment centres will ...

On Monday, John Swinney acknowledged that the NHS was not working for patients, telling an audience that he “saw patients who waited too long to be seen” and noting the “delays in discharge ...

And so, for a few glorious moments I pictured John Swinney doing public meditation exercises on Broughty Ferry beach - palms akimbo - with fellow devotees of the esoteric Chinese spiritual movement.

Just as we must hold the SNP’s feet to the fire over the state of the NHS, we should welcome signs that ministers are at least trying to do the right thing John Swinney’s new focus on the NHS ...