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.

Highland News & Media editor Megan Carr has shared how a sudden thyroid cancer diagnosis changed her life forever.

Analysis reveals an 18% drop in care homes over 10 years while the over-75 population rose by almost 72%

Home Bargains have multiple stores across the Highlands and Moray in Inverness, Tain, Dingwall, Aviemore, Nairn and Elgin.

A Scottish singer has opened up about his own battle with mental health, as he shares words of wisdom promising “light at the end of the tunnel.”

Federica Stefani shares her story of being a furloughed reporter during lockdown.

The pioneering success of a health rehabilitation team offering “a second chance at life” earned special recognition at Highland Heroes.

More than 3000 of you have now done your bit to boost blood supplies across Highland and Moray since we launched our Give Blood, Save Lives campaign.