Government software supplier Lagan today announced that it was included in the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Ireland. Placement is based on average percentage revenue growth over five years. Lagan grew 254 per cent during this period to record its highest ever revenue of over £15 million in the last year. The award marked the ninth consecutive time Lagan has been included in this prestigious assessment of company growth.

Two suspected cases of swine flu in Scotland have been confirmed as positive and both individuals are now recovering at Monklands Hospital in Lanarkshire.

Data from England’s Department for Health show that doctors and health professionals will have access to NHS funds of £65 billion beginning April 2013, provided the government’s plans to push reforms scrape through.

Plans for the Scottish government to hold a referendum on independence from the UK has garnered favour from some observers, with hope that a decisive vote will finally clear this decades-old question.

Unless the inefficiencies of the NHS are addressed, this great foundation of the welfare state will crumble under the weight of its own responsibility argues the author.

Youngsters exhibiting behavioural problems at Neyland’s Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) were locked in a padded room without proper ventilation, according to a report.

The European Commission has revealed the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011, in which Sweden emerged first as the most innovative EU member.

Cross party MPs have declared that elderly people are being cheated of efficient health care because of fragmented care services and suggested that joined-up commissioning would improve the situation significantly.

The EU has given into pressure from China, which has been working in tandem with India, Russia and the US, and backed down on its insistence that all airlines comply with its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).



Prime Minister David Cameron has been pressurised by GPs, MPs and colleagues to contemplate discarding the reforms suggested by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.