Health boards in Scotland are introducing a scheme to help nurses free up time so they can spend more hours on direct patient care, the Scottish government has announced. rnThe roll-out of the Releasing Time to Care (RTC) initiative, which aims to improve efficiency and quality in the NHS...
A new strategy on drug misuse has been promised by the Scottish Government following the publication of statistics on drug misuse this week. The statistics, published by Information Services Division Scotland, reveal a 35 per cent rise in methadone prescribing over the past five years. In the sam...
Professor�John Robertson�OBA From the UK Government’s Serious Violence Strategy report in 2018, the above table revealing the uniquely dramatic fall in homicide in Scotland, following the election of the SNP minority government in Scotland in 2007. Many will, correctly, point out that such ...
“The Scottish Government can no longer ignore the country’s housing emergency and must take the urgent action required to address it. With four local authorities having already declared local housing emergencies, alongside today’s figures, what further evidence does the Scottish Government require t...
Of course masses of the health budget already ends up with the private companies who supply the NHS. Here however a new national service provided out of the health budget is being commissioned by central government from a for-profit organisation, which is delivering it (literally, for once) ...
Group 28 Sign up to FREE email alerts from businessInsider - Business Newsletter sent Mon to Fri, twice each day with a full week's round up every Sat Invalid emailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up × The Scottish Government has named Stephen Baker as its new trade en...
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saw its share price fall after the Italian government said it was re-opening an old investigation into whether the company was complying with the rules of a particular tender some years ago. We continue to investigate this, to make sure nothing untoward has happened, but so far we're comfort...
As the team in the north-east are quick to point out, managing urban spaces primarily for nature is an effective conservation strategy. What’s more, spending time in nature-rich green spaces helps improve communities’ mental and physical health. The service has many ongoing initiatives to help...
SEPA is the Scottish government's principal environmental regulator. The nondepartmental public body - meaning it largely operates independently - has a staff of about 1,200.The agency says attackers began crypto-locking its systems "at one minute past midnight on Christmas Eve" after having ...