All schools in Scotland are to close at the end of this week, Nicola Sturgeon has announced. In a briefing at St Andrew’s House in Edinburgh, she also said a
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The number of young people under the age of 18 admitted to non-specialist hospital wards – mainly adult wards – for treatment of their mental illness in Scotland in 2018-19
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Scotland’s NHS has been formally placed on an emergency footing to help it deal with a “substantial and sustained” increase in coronavirus cases. Health Secretary Jeane Freeman revealed the move
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Elderly people in the UK will not be asked to stay at home, Scotland’s national clinical director has said. Professor Jason Leitch (pictured) said this group will be asked to
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Six care home residents have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Highgate Care Home in North Lanarkshire said it had put in place “strict infection control measures” after it identified the positive
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Children in care are still facing a “significant degree of inconsistency” with health assessments despite Government guidance, Barnardo’s Scotland has said. All youngsters in care undergo health assessments to try
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More than £3 million is being spent on a “rapid scaling up” of NHS facilities for video consultations in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has
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A conference being held by a diabetes charity in Glasgow has been cancelled amid growing concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. Diabetes UK said it was “not a decision we have
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A former Scottish Government official has told a court she felt “hunted” by Alex Salmond moments before an alleged attempted rape in Bute House. The former first minister of Scotland
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A coronavirus pandemic would be “quite useful” as it would take out hospital bed blockers, a former Scottish government official has said. Professor June Andrews said Covid-19 would allow hospitals
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