A RUTHERGLEN nursery worker this week appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on two child sex abuse charges.

RESEARCHERS have developed a smartphone app designed to help diagnose strokes.

Almost £300,000 of funding to support the Scottish Government’s autism strategy was announced by Public Health Minister Michael Matheson.

UP TO 270 Dumfries & Galloway Council posts will be axed during the current round of budget cuts. The positions will be lost through voluntary redundancies and early retirements.

A nurse who attacked a resident in a nursing home after he complained about the volume of a TV set has been handed a community service sentence.

A report into the role of social workers and health care staff in the case of murdered toddler Declan Hainey says things “could, and should have been done differently”.

In the first joint education initiative of its kind in Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have produced an educational resource for the entire health and social services workforce in Scotland.

THOUSANDS of Scots with autism will be forced to undergo personal assessments that could deprive them of vital cash payments under plans to reform the benefits system.

A three-month public consultation into the proposed shake-up of social care in west Cumbria has been carried out.

Families in Moray who have suffered domestic abuse are to benefit from a £300,000 Big Lottery Fund grant.