Audit Scotland tries hard to use building language in their reports, but it was obviously a real challenge when it comes to health and care...

Delivering better health and care integration is a challenge in all parts of the U.K. and internationally. We should try and learn from exp...

The implementation of health and care integration won’t be achieved on the cheap. While there should be long-term savings and better care f...

The health and care sector in Scotland is facing significant recruitment and retention problems at a time when we need to expand the workfor...

The key to delivering high quality social care in Scotland is a fairly paid, well-trained workforce that is given the time to care properly....

Scotland needs a quality home care service to meet the growing demand and also ensures that patients who shouldn’t be in hospital are cared ...

Social care is delivered by people, informal carers and workers, not robots. This means improving the quality of care in Scotland has to se...

While sound and fury explodes all around us on NHS spending, spare a thought for the crisis in Scotland's social care system. Today, I ...

If we are to create better jobs in Scotland we need to recognise and take action on job security, worker control, appropriate demand, fair ...

Effectively tackling harm, abuse and neglect in health and care settings is vitally important, but is more legislation the best way to add...

The social care crisis in Scotland is not given the priority it deserves, but there is a growing consensus about what needs to be done.  ...

Given the history of health and care integration, we should be wary of raising expectations over what the new bodies will be able to achie...

With thousands of beds blocked this winter by patients healthy enough to return home, it's time for politicians to put as much focus on ...

Health and care workers support integration, but fear it won’t deliver due to lack of resources That’s the main message from a UNISON Scotl...

Delivering health and care integration is proving every bit as a complex as we anticipated . I was at a seminar in Ayrshire today that br...

A story in today's Herald newspaper highlights the latest Scottish Government statistics on free personal and nursing care for elderl...

Health and care integration is right in principle but it will take more than moving the managerial deck chairs around to deliver quality car...

We are told this week that Mick Jagger is delighted with the prospect of becoming a great-grandfather, according to his granddaughter Assisi...

I was giving evidence at the Scottish Parliament's Health Committee today on the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Bill that aims to improve...