The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (2014) define seclusion as, "Locking someone in a room alone, because of their behaviour, is...

Ealing Council in London has become the first Council in the UK to ban anti-abortion campaigners from protesting outside an abortion...

A literature search by Bollig, Gjengedal and Rosland (2015) identified that the main ethical issues experienced by nursing staff in...

"There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never...

Standard 7.3 in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (UK) code (2015) states that: 'Nurses and Midwives use a range of verbal and...

It has been argued that where a person’s behaviour has contributed to their health care issues (e.g. obesity) they should not have the...

The Scottish Government has recently approved the  Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill, which is being hailed by many as a landmark in...

Student nurses often report that being placed in a nursing home does not help them develop the level of knowledge and clinical skills...

In the last 12 months there has been two landmark cases in the UK, where Doctors have recommended that children, with irreversible brain...

Emergency contraception is free in Scotland. There are 2 types: emergency contraceptive pill (sometimes called the morning after pill)...

There has been an increase in the number of healthy people prepared to donate a kidney to someone who is not a family member, i.e.someone...

It is widely known that people over retiral age still have sex. Does this or should this apply to older people living in residential care...