A senior police officer has said “clarity” is needed over proposals that could allow terminally ill 16-year-olds in Scotland to get help to end their life – with concerns raised
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Suspected drugs deaths have fallen by 10% in the latest quarterly data, with drug-related attendances at A&E seeing a similar decrease. Incidents of naloxone administration, which can prevent heroin overdoses,
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Patients in Scotland are not getting “the right care in the right place at the right time”, John Swinney has said. The First Minister laid out a plan to improve
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A patient deemed fit enough by doctors to be discharged has been stuck in hospital for more than seven years, according to new figures. A series of freedom of information
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Seven people convicted of being part of a child abuse ring which plunged to “the depths of human depravity” were sentenced to lifelong restriction orders and warned they may never
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The Scottish Government has dropped proposals for a National Care Service. Social care minister Maree Todd told MSPs on Thursday the plan to create a central national care board in
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The families of two people who took their own lives while in a young offenders institution now have a “chance of hope and a legacy”, their lawyer said after Scotland’s
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The Scottish Government will convene a new task force to look at what can be done to tackle online harms to children as it was urged to consider a social
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A couple whose daughter was born weighing just one pound and spent her first six months in hospital have praised medical staff after she was finally allowed to go home.
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More than 331,000 women in Scotland are estimated to have been impacted by changes to the state pension age for those born in the 1950s. Figures released by the House
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