Plans to cut around 300 jobs at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are “sheer lunacy”, a union official has said. The UK’s medical regulator aims to reduce
Read More
A coalition of 120 anti-poverty organisations, charities and others is calling on the Scottish Government to “do the right thing” and commit to doubling the payment made to needy parents
Read More
The head of a new fund aimed at compensating the survivors of abuse in care has been announced by the Scottish Government. Joanna McCreadie (pictured) will be chief executive of
Read More
Rules on self-isolation in Northern Ireland are to be relaxed, Stormont ministers have agreed. People who are close contacts of positive cases will no longer have to isolate for 10
Read More
Cases of Covid-19 have once again been identified at a military barracks being used to house asylum seekers, several months after a major outbreak at the camp. Four dormitory blocks
Read More
Families who suffer “pain and trauma beyond words” after being bereaved by suicide will be helped under a new service providing practical and emotional support. Initial pilots will run in
Read More
Two-thirds of people in Britain support increasing National Insurance contributions to pay for social care reform, a poll has found. Ipsos Mori’s latest Political Monitor poll also revealed 49% of
Read More
The Scottish Government is pushing for the expansion of distribution for a life-saving anti-overdose treatment to be made permanent. During the pandemic, changes to guidelines by the Lord Advocate allowed
Read More
Appointments have been announced for two new deputy chief medical officers and a new chief pharmaceutical officer for the Scottish Government. Professors Nicola Steedman (pictured) and Graham Ellis are the
Read More
Scotland’s Health Secretary and his wife have begun legal proceedings against a nursery they claim rejected her daughter. Humza Yousaf and his wife Nadia El-Nakla applied for a place for
Read More