The Scottish Government must ensure there are enough NHS staffed beds available in acute specialities to meet demand, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. The party’s health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton
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The NHS is working with councils to improve “housing health” to boost the wellbeing of vulnerable residents after a report found poor housing is costing the health service £1.4 billion
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Thirteen NHS bodies have been threatened with legal action over policies which “breach the human rights of patients”. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is launching legal action against
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Services for children and young people in East Ayrshire are performing well and delivering very good outcomes for children, young people and their families, inspectors have said. Across nine quality
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All patients in England will soon be able to be referred to hospitals with the shortest waiting lists under plans unveiled alongside a new contract for GPs. The e-Referral Service
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More funding should be provided to help prevent falls, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. LGA analysis of NHS figures shows 316,669 people aged 65 and over were admitted
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Tens of thousands of patients who have been deemed sick enough to be admitted to hospital after attending A&E have been forced to wait for hours on end before being
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Poor sharing of information led to warning signs being missed before a 19-day-old boy was murdered by his mother, a serious case review has found. Nicola Brown, 43, was found
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Closer integration of health and social care services, with the aim of ending the historic divide between the NHS and social services, has been the goal of successive governments for
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A large number of patients are not getting the follow-up care they are entitled to after a dementia diagnosis, a charity has said. New analysis by charity Age UK found
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