Scotland’s NHS is continuing to get worse while hospitals in England are improving “substantially”, according to expert analysis that delivered a “damning verdict on the SNP’s mismanagement”. Nicola Sturgeon and her then health secretary,

A briefing by the IFS ahead of the Scottish Budget shows its performance in many key areas remains worse than before the pandemic, and has continued to decline in all but one in the past year.

The NHS in Scotland is recovering more slowly from the covid pandemic than in England, a report has warned. The institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found the performance of the health service in key areas remains worse than before lockdown,