Marion Scott

A year on from the opening of JK Rowling’s women-only rape centre, thousands of victims have reached out for help.

A nurse off work on full pay for six years after being accused of involvement in a patient’s death claims he has demanded NHS bosses report the case to police on 22 occasions.

Menopause campaigners say 95 per cent of women have had negative experiences attempting to get medical help.

Parents of an autistic teenager who took his own life warn inadequacies in mental health care are putting more young lives at risk.

A leading psychologist is calling for counselling training for forced adoption victims so they can help each other over the trauma they suffered.

A specialist group set up as part of Scotland’s Women’s Health Plan to improve treatments for endometriosis has met just once,

The police call centre involved in the M9 crash tragedy and Sheku Bayoh’s death is facing a dangerous staffing crisis, according to sources.

A senior US politician has praised the Scottish first minister’s decision to make a formal apology over the historic forced adoption scandal.

Victims of forced adoption, one of Scotland’s biggest human rights scandals, have called on Nicola Sturgeon to apologise before she stands down as first minister.

At least 30 women have been killed by partners or ­ex-partners in four years, police figures reveal, as experts warn the official toll is only the tip of the iceberg.

An apology to the victims of forced adoption in Wales has been welcomed by campaigners as pressure builds on the Scottish Government to do the same.

Hospices across Scotland are being forced to cut beds and services as soaring energy prices push them to the brink.

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The acclaimed campaigner against male violence against women and girls is behind Counting Dead Women and says: “It’s exactly what I do. Someone had to.”

Police officers who suffered sexual abuse, bullying and misogyny have told the justice secretary to strengthen Police Scotland watchdogs.

The death of Adrienne McCartney must be the catalyst for a new commission to curb the toll inflicted by domestic violence, according to Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton.

In October last year, exactly 59 weeks ago, Adrienne McCartney spoke to The Sunday Post to reveal how she had suffered domestic abuse and how police and prosecutors had failed her time and time again. Today, she is dead.

Chronic pain sufferers asked to speak on behalf of patients claim civil servants conspired with a patients’ organisation to ban them from speaking to each other.

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Patients will not be able to directly contact Scotland’s new Patient Safety Commissioner under the role’s proposed remit, we can reveal.