Scottish Healthcare

Scotland’s proposed division of the NHS into East and West would place nearly three-quarters of the country’s most deprived neighbourhoods inside the western region. At the same time, that region contains a majority of the hyperscale data-centre locations identified in a national campaign inventory,

John Swinney’s government plans to replace Scotland’s 14 territorial NHS boards with two strategic authorities, but has yet to publish the cost of the restructuring or the savings it expects to achieve. Previously withheld government briefings reveal that east–west NHS planning arrangements were being