Scotland should open a debate over whether the latest medicines should be prioritised for younger patients over the elderly, the head of Scotland’s drug watchdog believes.
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Plans to increase provision for primary school children with autism have been announced by South Lanarkshire Council. The decision followed a year-long campaign for specialist support in Rutherglen and Cambuslang.
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A social care worker has been stabbed to death while visiting a house in Lancashire. Police were called to Fulwood, Preston, on Monday morning after reports of a knife attack.
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AN ESTIMATED 2,000 people marched through the centre of Aberdeen on Saturday in protest at massive cuts in council services.
A £27m reduction in council spending has hit schools, sports facilities and services for the disabled.
Members of the SNP-LibDem administration who attended the rally were jeered as they attempted to pin the blame on the previous administration.
Among the groups demonstrating was homelessness charity Aberdeen Cyrenians, which says that a £900,000 budget cut means it has to sack a quarter of its staff.
Aberdeen Ice Hockey Club was also protesting about the closure of the city’s ice rink.
The leader of Aberdeen Council, Lib Dem councillor Kate Dean, said: “We would not have had to make these cuts if we had a fairer funding settlement from the Government for Aberdeen – we need the funding formula changed.
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A slight increase in the income thresholds for recipients of the Carers Allowance and Carers Benefit is coming into effect from today.
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THE report into the breast cancer misdiagnosis of Rebecca O’Malley yesterday exposed major flaws in patient care and raised serious concerns about two hospitals designated as national “centres of excellence”.
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The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is launching a new body which will have responsibility for policing the country’s borders.
The UK Border Agency merges the work of 25,000 immigration, revenue and customs and visa staff. Critics say its creation is just a re-branding exercise, since the new agency will have no new powers.
A Home Office spokesman said: “The new agency will be the eyes and ears of the police at the border.”
The UKBA’s 25,000 staff previously worked in the Border and Immigration Agency, HM Revenue and Customs and UK Visas, which all merged to form the new agency.
UKBA will work to combat smuggling, immigration crime and border tax fraud.
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If you can’t stop playing computer games, be careful. Doctors say it could give you the same highly negative character traits associated with a form of autism.
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VOLUNTARY and community care organisations in South Yorkshire are set to benefit from a £17million pot of Government grants.
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Thousands of Scots carers have been forced to give up their jobs as a legal anomaly leaves them with fewer safeguards than their counterparts south of the border.
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