The Scottish Government has doubled the number of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) clinical specialist nurses, Public Health Minster Aileen Campbell has said. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pledged to improve MND
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Projects aimed at helping domestic abuse victims have been boosted by £2.3 million of funding. The money from the Big Lottery Fund has been divided between five initiatives in Dunbartonshire,
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A nursery nurse has been struck off for calling a toddler a “terrorist” and a “bomber”. Nikki Alexander lost her job at Busy Bees nursery in Edinburgh for a catalogue
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Infirm hospital patients should receive guaranteed social care within a week of being declared fit to go home, according to Labour. More than 5,000 patients have been held in hospital
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A mother and her civil partner who murdered her two-year-old son are appealing against their convictions. Rachel Trelfa or Fee (left), 32, and partner Nyomi Fee, 29, were found guilty
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A former social worker and current Labour MP for Stockport has condemned the state of social care in Inverness claiming it is ‘dreadful’. Ann Coffey, a former social worker for
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Care workers and GMB union members delivering vital dementia care across the Isle of Bute will this morning demonstrate against a decision by Argyll & Bute Health and Social Care
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The social security system is failing to provide a safety net to stop people falling into severe poverty, a report by Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has found. It uncovered sharp
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A woman who used an electric dog collar on a toddler during a “cruel” catalogue of abuse has been jailed for three years and four months. Lanna Monaghan had acquired
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A leading provider of housing support is celebrating after receiving a five-star review of it’s North-east service from the Care Inspectorate. Blackwood’s North Support Services, in Aberdeen, recently underwent an
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