Health & Social Care
Health groups call for 'urgent' introduction of junk food price promotion restrictions
20 August 2019
Scottish Obesity Alliance members wrote to Sturgeon demanding “urgent action” to restrict “all promotions on food and drink high in fat, sugar and salt in Scotland”
NHS bullying and harassment advisory group holds first meeting
1 August 2019
The group was set up after John Sturrock QC’s report on the culture of bullying at NHS Highland...
Two-child benefit cap figures reveal ‘human cost of nasty policy’, CPAG says
31 July 2019
Fresh HMRC figures show the policy’s impact in the past two years
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Applications for crisis grants leaps to almost 200,000
30 July 2019
Newly published figures show that the Welfare Fund received 193,230 applications for Crisis Grants...
New jobs announced for Scotland's social security service
30 July 2019
Social Security Scotland announces first major recruitment drive in Glasgow
Care-experienced university applicants to be given ‘guaranteed offer’
25 July 2019
Scottish universities collectively commit to boost the number of looked-after university students
Tackling Scotland's drug crisis needs to be put ahead of political point-scoring
22 July 2019
The poor cannot continue to be the collateral damage for failed policies around drugs and that is a...
Scotland's public health minister calls for 'urgent' meeting with Sajid Javid on drugs crisis
22 July 2019
The Scottish Government wants to work with the UK Government to tackle the rising number of drug...
Opt-out organ donation bill to come into effect Autumn 2020
19 July 2019
The Human Tissue Bill has received Royal Assent
Royal Pharmaceutical Society warns no deal Brexit contingency won’t ‘eliminate risks’ to medical supply
19 July 2019
Industry bodies are concerned about disruption to medical supply, price rises and counterfeit...
Further delays to opening of new children’s hospital after more safety checks ordered
18 July 2019
The circumstances surrounding the delayed opening have been described as a “shambles”
Cross-party call for 'radical action' on drug deaths
17 July 2019
The MSPs are calling on the UK and Scottish governments to "examine all options", including...
Scottish Drugs Forum says drug death figures are a 'national scandal'
16 July 2019
The organisation says that official figures from the National Records of Scotland (NRS)...
Death from drugs reaches highest ever level
16 July 2019
The number of people dying from drug related deaths in Scotland has reached a record high
No guarantee of Scottish medical supplies in no deal Brexit, Mike Russell warns
15 July 2019
MSP Mike Russell says it will be “very difficult, if not impossible, to guarantee the continuity of...