Scammers who target the elderly should face tougher criminal sentences, a Conservative MP has demanded. Nusrat Ghani (Weldon) has called for a new criminal offence of elder-abuse to be created
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The new head of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has defended the embattled probe and insisted it will not be scaled back. Professor Alexis Jay admitted its scale
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Statins are safe and effective but their potential side-effects have been exaggerated by unreliable studies, according to a major medical review. The cholesterol-reducing tablets, the most prescribed drugs in the
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Greater effort should be made to introduce palliative care options to elderly patients who often miss out on such services, according to a new report. Those aged 70 and over
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Childline is handling soaring numbers of calls from children seeking help for suicidal thoughts, a new report has revealed. The NSPCC service held 19,481 counselling sessions about suicide in 2015/16
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Scottish Labour has renewed calls for 16 to 18-year-olds to be exempted from having a named person ahead of a ministerial statement on the scheme. Deputy First Minister John Swinney
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The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has increased by a fifth over the past year, official figures show. Just over 900,000 people say they work on a zero-hours basis
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A High Court judge is set to analyse evidence at a trial after social services staff asked for help protecting a vulnerable teenage girl they say is being sexually exploited
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The future of the NHS is in danger along with the principle of universal healthcare free at the point of delivery, it has been warned. Labour peer Viscount Hanworth also
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New programmes to help sick and disabled Scots into work will get up and running next year, Holyrood ministers have confirmed. The Scottish Government is to set up the Work
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