Scotland’s only respite care centre for people with multiple sclerosis is to close later this year. The decision to shut Leuchie House near North Berwick was taken following an 18-month review to assess whether it met the needs of those living with MS.

Illegal gangmasters are expanding into new industries such as care homes, construction and the restaurant trade to take advantage of a loophole in the law.

MSPs have voted to allow women to benefit from a Stirlingshire care home that has been restricted to men since it opened 150 years ago.

Scotland’s Children’s Minister Adam Ingram is to visit one of the country’s leading residential schools for male children and youths.

SEVENTY-FIVE elderly residents are facing being made homeless after the company that owns their nursing homes went into administration.

The Scottish NHS could face making more cut-backs than its counterpart in England as the impact of the asault on the UK deficit bites, a think tank report has warned

A council has highlighted its area’s natural landscape in an advert seeking a new head of social work services. On its website, Highland said the region was one of the most sought after places to live.

AN INVESTIGATION has been carried out after it emerged council social workers visited the house of a drug addict the day before she fed a two-month-old baby methadone.

AN ABERDEEN nurse has been struck off after lying to colleagues and a health watchdog about a care home resident’s back injury. Deepa Francis was on duty at the Tor-na-dee care home when a patient fell.

An online database that will allow NHS staff to share information has been unveiled by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon.