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| | | | | | | Bird Flu: UK-wide alert after cases detected at Scottish poultry farm | | | | | | | | A bird flu prevention zone has been declared across Britain to try and stop the disease spreading among poultry and other birds. | | | | | |
|  | | | | | | | | | | No place for pensioner poverty - Brian Sloan | | | | Soaring fuel prices and empty supermarket shelves have left families across Scotland feeling the pinch. Many of us are already looking for ways to cut back, whether that’s driving less or saving money on the weekly shop. |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Scotland must keep up pioneering role with bold policies on health - Jon Roden | | | | Scotland has been a pioneer in public health, leading the way in recent years by introducing bold policies. We were the first country in the UK to ban smoking in enclosed public places and the first in the world to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol. |
| | | | | | | | | Puzzling why consultation proposes bringing all social care into single service - Fiona Duncan | | | | In August, the Scottish Government announced a public consultation on the creation of a National Care Service. The benefits of centralised services, accountable to ministers rather than local authorities, are regularly debated within Scotland. Policy makers and influencers have long been arguing about children and adult social care. |
| | | | | | | | | Current care systems aren’t working for people they serve and need radical change - Professor Ian Welsh OBE | | | | Ten years ago, the ALLIANCE initiated a debate about social care, based on a commissioned piece of work entitled 12 Propositions for Social Care, with a set of briefing papers and a national dialogue seminar of interested organisations. |
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