Scotland’s professional adviser for midwifery and perinatal care Jaki Lambert has been appointed as the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) new director for Scotland. Ms Lambert (pictured), from Argyll and
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Staff at a nursery which has become embroiled in a feud with Scotland’s health secretary over a place for his daughter have said they “cannot apologise for something we haven’t
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Female detainees were forced to mix with men with a history of sexual violence against women in an immigration centre due to Covid restrictions, a report has found. Concerns have
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Progress has been made on meeting requirements to improve services for older people in the City of Edinburgh, inspectors have said. It follows an inspection in 2017 which found weaknesses
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Children at a Catholic boarding school in Scotland were sexually abused and subjected to sadistic treatment that “destroyed childhoods”, an inquiry has found. Lady Smith, chair of the Scottish Child
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Three-quarters of epilepsy-related fatalities across Scotland could be prevented, a study has shown. Epilepsy is a common condition that affects the brain and causes frequent seizures. It is associated with
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About 60 per cent of people who are at risk of an opioid overdose in Scotland have received specialist treatment to prevent a potentially fatal outcome, a report has shown.
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Judges will have to take rehabilitation into account as a primary consideration when sentencing young people after a new guideline was approved in a “significant milestone”. The Scottish Sentencing Council
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Three new cancer drugs have been given the go-ahead for routine use in Scotland, the Scottish Medicines Consortium has announced. Lung cancer drugs Osimertinib (Tagrisso) and Atezolizumab (Tecentriq) were cleared
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A victim of a monk who was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of sexually abusing boys over two decades has said the sentence “couldn’t ever be long
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