Scottish former health secretary Jeane Freeman has admitted the country could have been better prepared to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, but “no plan” could have helped the country cope.
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Adult social care was in a “terrible” state of pandemic preparedness with the Government lacking basic knowledge, including how many care homes were in the UK at the time when
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Care home residents and hospital patients will be able to have visitors in all circumstances under plans for new regulations aimed at stopping access to loved ones being unfairly denied.
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The Cabinet Office’s refusal to hand over requested documents to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry is “corrosive” and will damage confidence in the process, the opening hearing has been told. Sam
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Social care leaders have warned that using volunteers to take medicines and prescriptions to people must not be a distraction to “systematic, Government-induced issues” impacting the struggling sector. A volunteer
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The chairwoman of the Covid inquiry would surely be left with no choice but to resign if the Government wins its legal fight over access to ministers’ WhatsApp messages, a
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The Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry has appointed a chief executive to help investigate the Government’s response to the pandemic. Ian Duddy, chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, will begin his
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Boris Johnson has handed his unredacted WhatsApp messages and notebooks to the Cabinet Office, as the former prime minister called on the Government to “urgently disclose” the material to the
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Members of the public have been invited to share the lessons they believe should be learned from the Scottish Government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Let’s Be Heard: Sharing Scotland’s
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A care home has been fined £20,000 for breaking health and safety laws after a resident died from drinking sanitiser during the coronavirus lockdown. David Fyfe, 90, had dementia and
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