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Fact check: Immigration claims on BBC Question Time
Ferret Fact service looks at a number of claims about immigration and the health service made by an audience member appearing on the BBC's Question Time programme.
Firms linked to tax havens profit from NHS recruitment crisis
Firms profiting from NHS Scotland's recruitment crisis have links to tax havens and pay their directors up to £184,000.
Operating theatre at £27m Fife hospital unused since opening 10 years ago
St Andrews Community Hospital has 90 staff and 40 beds, but its operating theatre has not been used since it opened in 2009.
Chronic pain: £270,000 ‘talking shop’ slammed as frontline services stretched
A university research project was given nearly £300,000 of taxpayers' money to research chronic pain by the Scottish Government as hundreds of patients wait months for treatment.
Lucky and still here: students struggle to access mental health services
The mental health crisis at Scottish universities: stories from students
Rise in restraint of mental health patients causes concern
Scotland’s Mental Welfare Commission will examine the use of physical restraint in NHS facilities - after data gathered by The Ferret revealed a rise in recorded incidents across numerous health boards.
Asylum seekers in Scotland deprived of health care
Destitute asylum seekers in Scotland are not getting proper healthcare because the UK government denies them recourse to public funds, according to a new report.
Fact check: Theresa May’s Brexit agreement letter
Ferret Fact Service looks at some of the claims in Theresa May's Brexit agreement letter.
Fact check: Scottish Labour’s party political broadcast
Ferret Fact Service looks at the claims made in Scottish Labour's latest party political broadcast.