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An Audit Scotland report, Emergency departments, says patient satisfaction with emergency care services is high, and four out of five patients we su

There are important lessons to be learned by all public bodies about using the private sector to help deliver their objectives following the losses incurred thr

The bulletin primarily aims to share information with non-executive health board members and elected members of councils, but it also provides a summary of ou

The NHS in Scotland could save almost 15 per cent of the money it spends on locum doctors in hospitals – or about £6 million a year - through bet

A national detection exercise by Audit Scotland and other public bodies has identified fraud and error overpayments, savings and other outcomes worth more th

The National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland has made big changes in how it manages waiting lists since 2008 and these have made the system fairer for patie

Scotland’s public sector is continuing to find more efficient ways of delivering services, and its reported efficiency savings in 2008/09 exceeded the