New care proposals planned for Scotland are not about budget cuts, Holyrood’s public health minister Michael Matheson has insisted.

The CHILDREN 1ST Annual Lecture 2012 will take place on Monday 26 November 2012 from 6pm at the Apex Waterloo Place Hotel, Edinburgh and will be delivered by Kaye Adams, journalist, TV and radio broadcaster.

Plans to build a £150m replacement for Edinburgh’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children have been approved.

Independent MSP Margo MacDonald is to bring back proposals to allow people the legal right to die.

Gayle Rice explains how a project in Scotland has involved young people in planning and designing care leavers’ services

VULNERABLE children could be at risk after the laptop of an adoption worker was stolen over a month ago with “several years worth” of sensitive information on it.

An inspection has found a dozen areas for improvement needed in care for older patients at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.

Scottish ministers were warned by CIPFA Scotland today that there was no need for a law to merge health and social care budgets.

A NEW faculty to rehabilitate those tackling drug or alcohol addictions has opened its doors.

Drink-related harm costs Scotland’s 32 local authorities £2bn each year, according to a Scots charity.