THE Scottish Prison Service has insisted it has the right facilities in place to tackle a vast majority of medical conditions – including mental-health illnesses such as dementia.

OLD FOLK in a care home were left without heating and hot running water for six weeks, it has emerged.

A MIDLOTHIAN care worker has become the first Scottish recipient of an annual national care home award.

A SHERIFF has ruled higher safety standards in a Scots nursing home could have prevented the death of a woman who broke her neck falling from a wheelchair.

A COUNCIL forked out £60,000 to a care firm – to look after 14 residents who were DEAD.

MORE psychiatric patients are to be treated in their own homes under a £1.6 million NHS Lothian scheme.