The Health Secretary has committed to adding day-to-day assessments of staff needs into new legislation aimed at ensuring safe numbers of healthcare workers. Holyrood unanimously passed the Health and Care
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A campaign to support older people experiencing care to move more often has been hailed as a success by independent research. In 2016 the Care Inspectorate was commissioned by the
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Proposed new legislation to enshrine safe levels of health and care staff in law is expected to pass its first hurdle at Holyrood later. The Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland)
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A project to recruit more nursery staff from ethnic minorities has been launched by the Scottish Government. The £140,000 scheme aims to increase the diversity of the early learning and
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One in five of the 1,540 people who attended A&E in the three months prior to taking their own lives died within two days of leaving hospital, new figures show.
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A total of 221 young Scots have been waiting more than a year for specialist help with mental health problems, new figures have shown. NHS statistics also disclosed there were
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A safe containing funds for a Christmas lunch has been stolen from a care home by thieves using a wheelchair. Police said there was more than £2,000 of cash in
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A former resident of a children’s home confided to an ex-employee he had been raped and sexually abused as a teenager, an inquiry has been told. The Scottish Child Abuse
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The “toxic” Tory Government has been blamed by the SNP for stirring up anti-immigrant feeling in working-class people through a lack of public investment. The party’s justice and home affairs
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The Scottish Government has announced £8.5 million in funding to improve forensic medical examinations and other health services for victims of rape and sexual assault. This financial year, £2.5 million
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