A care home for older people in West Dumbartonshire must make urgent improvements in the care provided to vulnerable residents, the Care Inspectorate has said. Inspectors have served a formal Improvement
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A health board has been slammed for “verging on scandalous” figures showing just 6% of patients suffering from chronic pain saw a specialist for help within the 18-week waiting time.
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Shamed former SNP MSP Mark McDonald has insisted his return to Holyrood is “morally justified” despite admitting inappropriate behaviour towards women. Mr McDonald intends to sit as an independent MSP,
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A paranoid schizophrenic who admitted pushing a commuter into the path of an oncoming Tube train said he was “crazy and stupid” shortly after the near-fatal shove. Alan Alencar was
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An SNP MSP has lodged a formal complaint over shamed former minister Mark McDonald’s return to Holyrood. James Dornan (pictured) said the presence of his ex-party colleague would be a
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NHS spending on agency workers has reached more than £300 million for the first time ever despite the First Minister saying health boards should “minimise” the use of such staff,
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Nicola Sturgeon has said she is “concerned” by the police detection rate for so-called revenge porn cases in Scotland. She said there is “still work to be done” in tackling
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The Scottish Government’s former childcare minister Mark McDonald has quit the SNP after a series of sleaze allegations were made against him. Mr McDonald (pictured) accepted his behaviour had caused
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An SNP MP has proposed changes to the UK Government’s welfare policy, to prevent women being “forced to choose between poverty and abuse”. Dr Philippa Whitford (pictured) has published a
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Brexit could exacerbate a “severe workforce crisis” in the care sector, potentially forcing homes and others services to shut, the industry has warned. Scottish Care, the organisation that represents independent
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