Prison healthcare in the UK is based on the principle of equivalence, which means that people detained in prison should receive equivalent standards of care – and achieve equivalent health outcomes – as the general population (House of Commons Health & Social Care Committee,2018; UNODC and WHO...
Faced with an aging population and the falling popularity of general practice as a career there have been concerns that the future Scottish general practitioner (GP) work force may be insufficient to manage a rising clinical workload [1]. As in other countries [2], there has been a marked ...
32–34). By the mid-nineteenth century, a large proportion of the population of the rural Highlands and Islands were crofters, although this circumstance is not at all apparent from a reading of headstones. The geographical dislocation, sense of injustice and loss of socio-economic status for ...