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Funding for care services in Scotland has been continuously reduced due to year-on-year cuts in local authority funding, causing great difficulties for people who use these services. The simple cause…

Scottish care services, independent and council-run, together with the local area health services across the country, are currently working through an exciting but challenging time of change. By 2016, these…

Evidence-based practice has for some time been an important principle in providing social care. Recent developments have seen the importance of evidence and intelligence-based practice increasing. These changes include the…

The NHS tells us that dementia is caused by a higher than normal loss of brain cells, normally due to a build-up of unusual proteins in the brain. This damage…

The Government in Scotland has embarked on an ambitious (and welcome) program, asking the country how it can become a fairer and more equal place to live. Increasing improvements in…

On average, nursing homes receive poorer grading on their performance than residential homes. It is thought that this is caused by staff shortages: the CQC State of Care report showed…

The Scottish Government – as in other parts of the UK – is looking at restructuring the operations of their Health Service and more local, primary care, holistic and person-centred…

Free personal care was introduced by the Scottish Government in 2002. Local authorities will directly pay the care element of fees for those people whose care needs they assess and…