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TWENTY YEARS AGO, with the Scottish Parliament newly established, a group of economists wrote about what it should do with
THE FOUR-HOUR TARGET has survived for decades because it sounds reasonable to people who imagine illness as a transaction. You
WHEN DAVID BULL visited Scotland during the 2024 general election campaign, Jo Hart took us to meet fishermen in Peterhead,
EVERY WINTER CORRIDORS FILL WITH OLDER PATIENTS ON TROLLEYS, headlines decry indignity, and ministers promise action. But corridor care is
WE LIVE in an age of “emergencies”: a climate emergency, a cost-of-living emergency and, in Scotland since May 2024, a