Health

Discussing with your family whether you want to be an organ donor, and making your decision known on the organ donor register is crucial.

Only 60% of families currently give consent.

An event designed to help people suffering from endometriosis is set to be hosted in Aviemore next month.

A hospital patient who suffered a bleed on the brain after a fall in a ward and later died experienced “significant & serious” failings in their care.

‘Extreme risk’ warning from fire and rescue service for across Cairngorms

Jacqui Waring worked with NHS Highland to deliver improvements after her son Will Ogilvy took his own life aged just 28.

Scotland’s national children’s charity is urging Highland parents and carers to seek their support if worried about their child’s mental health.

Listen to episode one of our brand new look at what is going on behind the headlines in Beyond the Briefing.

Edward Mountain and Fergus Ewing fear that losing services leads to ‘adverse outcomes’ for patients.

Exactly one year away from the vote we look at what the region wants and what could change.

A GP surgery has been told to apologise to a patient for its “unreasonable failure” to diagnose their deep vein thrombosis over an 18 month period.

Health chiefs at NHS Highland have been ordered to apologise to relatives over the nursing care given to a patient who later died in hospital.

NHS Highland starts a community survey into £330k bequest

That has delayed crews by a total 14,544 hours last year – the equivalent of 606 days.

Scottish Government is slammed for leaving ‘frontline NHS staff dangerously overstretched and more prone to making mistakes’.

St Vincent’s was to have received over £310,000 nearly 25 years ago

A Highland man whose family has been blighted by Huntington’s disease and is now fighting it as well remains fiercely positive about the future.

NHS Highland has named its new Director of Public Health.

A call for an emergency summit on social care in the Highlands has been backed by one of the region’s biggest independent care providers.

Every Highland resident offered a Covid-19 vaccine this spring is being urged to come forward, get jagged and stay protected.