Scottish Care

New integrated Health and social care boards come into operation on 1st April in Scotland. The aim is to provide preventive, joined up services centred on the needs of local…

The National Care Standards in Scotland are a set of indicators for the quality of regulated care services. They were devised and published after extensive consultation with service users, carers,…

Eating properly for good health is a relevant topic for our time. There are fears that increasing obesity levels will overwhelm our health services with the associated health problems which…

Scottish charities involved in support and advocacy in mental health have launched a 19 point charter of rights for service users. The launch event took place on 22 February 2016.…

A recent research study, reported in Nurse Education Today, was carried out jointly by several universities across the UK. The study pointed out that while the ‘system’ is often blamed…

Mr. Robertson, a recently retired NHS Chairperson for Greater Glasgow and Clyde has thrown a new perspective on how to balance increasing demand on health services with the need to…

There is an increasing availability of resources and evidence to help care services to implement and benefit from active living for older people, and indeed for us all generally. Health…

The National Care Standards in Scotland are available to service users and their carers in choosing and evaluating the service they receive. They are service specific standards in developing and…