A Scottish health board is redeploying office staff and postponing non-urgent procedures amid soaring demand for accident-and-emergency (A&E) services across the country. NHS Lanarkshire said its three hospital sites at
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Scotland’s prosecution service is looking for victims of sexual crimes to give feedback on their experience of the judiciary, in an effort to improve the system. It comes after Rape
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The head of a UK aid charity has said the Rohingya people are victims of “crimes against humanity”. The Muslim minority refugees fleeing violence in their home state of Rakhine
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Scotland has met a target to provide homes for 2,000 Syrian refugees three years ahead of schedule. The UK Government has committed to resettling 20,000 people fleeing the war-torn country
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A homeless man who stood guard by an open car to make sure a handbag and money was not stolen has been overwhelmed by a campaign that has now seen
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A child abuse helpline referred more than 250 calls to police in Scotland over the last year. NSPCC Scotland revealed 265 cases were passed on to authorities in 2016/17, up
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MSPs have agreed to remove a deadline for key legislation for the Scottish Government’s controversial named person policy. The unanimous decision scrapping the need for the first phase of Children
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Scotland’s care sector needs an extra £1 billion of funding, MSPs have heard. Donald Macaskill, Scottish Care chief executive, told a Holyrood committee the cash was a “conservative” estimate of
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Around 120,000 older Scots could be living with undiagnosed mental health conditions caused by loneliness and isolation, charities have warned. A quarter of people aged over 65 experience depression when
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Three key standards for looking after people with dementia are only “adequate or less” at almost four out of 10 care homes, a report by inspectors revealed. Overall the Care
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