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Pay rises for NHS bosses while Highlands faces ‘unprecedented’ health cuts
The salaries of senior executives in charge of a widely-criticised Scottish health board have kept rising while they made severe cuts to services.
Safety fears over threat to Highland autism service
Funding cutbacks by NHS Highland are threatening to shut down a vital service for the autistic community, prompting fears for the safety of service users.
Insight: Dundee’s drugs crisis and those left behind
The drug-related death count in Dundee jumped from 57 to 73 in 2017, and is almost double the national average.
Lucky and still here: students struggle to access mental health services
The mental health crisis at Scottish universities: stories from students
Rise in restraint of mental health patients causes concern
Scotland’s Mental Welfare Commission will examine the use of physical restraint in NHS facilities - after data gathered by The Ferret revealed a rise in recorded incidents across numerous health boards.
Call made for improved out-of-hours mental health care in prisons
Campaigners call for immediate changes to put in place better out-of-hours mental health provision in prisons.
Asylum seekers in Scotland deprived of health care
Destitute asylum seekers in Scotland are not getting proper healthcare because the UK government denies them recourse to public funds, according to a new report.
Elderly Scots face Christmas care chaos as private provider nears collapse
Thousands of elderly people in Scotland are facing “worry and uncertainty” because the company which provides their care is running out of money.
Prison suicides prompt call for fewer sentences to save lives
There have been more than 58 suicides over the last ten years in Scottish prisons.
