RCN Scotland has called for an improvement in care home treament for people with dementia. The plea comes in the wake of a joint report from the Care Commission and Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, which found that the quality of care for half the people in care homes in Scotland is not good enough.

THE location of a new “state-of-the-art” care home in Tranent, to replace the now dated Fa’side Lodge facility, has been revealed – though a question mark hangs over the future site of the town’s day centre.

Proposals for a 90-bed care home on the outskirts of Fort William are likely to be approved, despite claims that it is “grossly excessive” in size and will create an “institution”.

Urgent action should be taken to protect the human rights of people with dementia in care homes, a charity says. The call from Alzheimer Scotland came as two watchdogs published a report after visiting 30 care homes and interviewing 1,335 residents.

AN EAST Kilbride woman is to be recognised as one of the top employees in the care sector in Scotland at a prestigious awards ceremony in Glasgow

A new specially designed child and family centre is to be built in Drumchapel in Glasgow. Nearly £6million is to be invested in the centre which will offer a one-stop-shop combination of services for families with disabled children.

A Dundee nurse has been suspended after allegations he abused elderly patients. David Mutty, 59, worked part-time at a private nursing home in the city as well as full-time at an NHS Tayside hospital caring for dementia patients.

INVERCLYDE Council has announced that suspended Corporate Director of Education and Social Care, Ian Fraser, is to take early retirement.

A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the deaths of 14 people in a care home fire after a bid to prosecute its owners collapsed, it was announced today.

Patchy and uncoordinated mental health services are not supporting over 13,000 people in Scotland diagnosed with epilepsy and mental illness. Mapping current service provision is vital to meet their needs-and Epilepsy Scotland plans to do just that.