The University of Stirling’s new Centre for Child Wellbeing and Protection and leading children’s charity Aberlour have signed a collaboration agreement. Building on a strong existing partnership they have committed to
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A revolutionary mobile device to deliver radiotherapy more precisely during surgery, without causing damage to surrounding tissue and organs, is to be used for the first time at a UK
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Cholesterol has been questioned as a cause of heart disease in older people in a controversial new study. A review of 19 studies involving 68,094 people, published in the BMJ
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The Scottish Government has been urged to “get to grips” with staffing pressures in the NHS after an unpublished probe into children’s wards at several hospitals reportedly raises serious patient
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Nominations are open for Skills for Care’s national Accolades awards and adult social care organisations who deliver high quality care are being urged to enter. The Accolades recognise excellence and
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A new hard-hitting report into cancer services in Wales – produced by the University of Glasgow’s Institute for Health and Well-being – calls for an ambitious new plan to cope
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Health campaigners have said it is “grossly unfair” that men with advanced prostate cancer in Scotland will not be able to get a treatment on the NHS that could extend
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A report into the impact of mental health problems on personal finances has called on retailers and the financial industry to help fix the “toxic relationship”. Almost three quarters of
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Peers have warned of a “constitutionally inappropriate shift of power” from Parliament to Government. Laws are being drafted with vague wording that allows ministers significant discretion about how they are
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The father of Poppi Worthington is an ex-partner of a woman who was suspected of grooming the toddler’s mother when she was a teenager, a serious case review has revealed.
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