Scotland is leading the way in alcohol policy in the UK while the Westminster Government “comes out worst” on almost all such measures a new report has found. Academics from
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Child abuse victims will begin giving testimonies for the first time next week about their ordeal as part of the huge independent inquiry into alleged sexual abuse in Westminster and
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Accident and emergency units are facing a “perfect storm” that will heap on the pressure in the build-up to the busy winter period, according to one of the UK’s most
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Efforts to put more police on the beat and cut form-filling means vulnerable crime victims and witnesses are being let down when they get to court, a new report has
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Unpaid carers are saving the taxpayer £132 billion a year thanks partly to a “dramatic rise” in the hours they work, a new report claims. A rise in the cost
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Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, has been released from isolation after being treated for meningitis caused by the deadly virus. The 39-year-old Scot,
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The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has published its complaints statistics for adult social care – including data for both councils and private care providers – in its Annual Review of
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Mental health services are under “huge pressure”, a leading think tank has said, as it called for an end to cuts which it said could be responsible for a decline
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Successful businesses and wealthy individuals should make a bigger contribution to ending “shocking” levels of poverty and inequality in Britain, Sir John Major said. The Conservative former prime minister also
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Cardiff Metropolitan University recently teamed up with Alzheimer’s Scotland and the University of Dundee to run a creative community event on the Scottish island of Tiree. Prof Cathy Treadaway and
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