YOUR lead article on Friday ( Care home residents ‘left tied to long-term contracts’’ , The Herald, March 12) should be a wake-up call for us all living in a country with an ageing population. How can this be? Who is asking for those contracts, under what conditions are they being offered? Surely there is an ethical and moral question to such contracts and where does social services fit in? Your article rightly pointed out the recently published review into adult social care in Scotland, undertaken by Derek Feeley. This was an urgently-needed review and the Scottish Government has given a commitment to endorse the review in full. Indeed, only last month it brought forward legislation to establish a new National Care Service in line with NHS services in Scotland. Health Secretary Jeane Freeman emphasised that we must accord adult social care the same values as our NHS.
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AN SNP MP has hit out at Matt Hancock for a misleading and off-putting tweet that said women could do a smear test at home as part of a pilot project. Dr Philippa Whitford, a breast cancer surgeon, said women would need to have the long arms of Mr Men character Mr Tickle to carry out their own smear test. The UK Health Secretary said more than 31,000 women will be offered kits to carry out smear tests in the privacy and convenience of their own homes in parts of London where screening appointment attendance is low. Tweeting a link to the NHS England announcement, the Health Secretary added: Cervical screening is life-saving, so this is a great step forward.