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PODCAST: North NHS compensation payments total £34m so we look at why

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

MSPs accuse NHS Highland of being too afraid of Scottish Government to fight to retain services

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

What do the next Holyrood elections hold for the Highlands?

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

Patient’s deep vein thrombosis misery sparks order to GP to apologise

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.

NHS Highland told to apologise following care failings ruling

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.

Badenoch asked to give its views on St Vincent’s Hospital legacy

NHS Highland starts a community survey into £330k bequest

Ambulance waits to admit patients to NHS Highland hospitals soars by 16%

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

NHS Highland and NHS Grampian paid out a combined £34m in patient compensation

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

MSP will ask questions about 25-year-old bequest to former Badenoch hospital

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

‘Huntington’s disease took my gran, mum and sister, but I won’t let it change my life!’

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.

Senior NHS Highland board post filled

NHS Highland has named its new Director of Public Health.

‘The system is broken’: Highland care boss backs call for emergency summit

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.

Covid-19 vaccine plea issued to Highland residents

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

‘I was diagnosed with a rare cancer at 23 that took one of my vital organs’

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

Report by Highland Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald exposes Highland care sector crisis as he calls for £60m rescue package

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

Home bargains issue ‘urgent recall’ over Easter plushies

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

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Highland parents and carers in need urged to use charity Children’s First’s mental health helpline

PODCAST: North NHS compensation payments total £34m so we look at why

PODCAST: North NHS compensation payments total £34m so we look at why

MSPs accuse NHS Highland of being too afraid of Scottish Government to fight to retain services

MSPs accuse NHS Highland of being too afraid of Scottish Government to fight to retain services

What do the next Holyrood elections hold for the Highlands?

What do the next Holyrood elections hold for the Highlands?

Patient’s deep vein thrombosis misery sparks order to GP to apologise

Patient’s deep vein thrombosis misery sparks order to GP to apologise

NHS Highland told to apologise following care failings ruling

NHS Highland told to apologise following care failings ruling

Badenoch asked to give its views on St Vincent’s Hospital legacy

Badenoch asked to give its views on St Vincent’s Hospital legacy

Ambulance waits to admit patients to NHS Highland hospitals soars by 16%

Ambulance waits to admit patients to NHS Highland hospitals soars by 16%

NHS Highland and NHS Grampian paid out a combined £34m in patient compensation

NHS Highland and NHS Grampian paid out a combined £34m in patient compensation

MSP will ask questions about 25-year-old bequest to former Badenoch hospital

MSP will ask questions about 25-year-old bequest to former Badenoch hospital

‘Huntington’s disease took my gran, mum and sister, but I won’t let it change my life!’

‘Huntington’s disease took my gran, mum and sister, but I won’t let it change my life!’

Senior NHS Highland board post filled

Senior NHS Highland board post filled

‘The system is broken’: Highland care boss backs call for emergency summit

‘The system is broken’: Highland care boss backs call for emergency summit

Covid-19 vaccine plea issued to Highland residents

Covid-19 vaccine plea issued to Highland residents

‘I was diagnosed with a rare cancer at 23 that took one of my vital organs’

‘I was diagnosed with a rare cancer at 23 that took one of my vital organs’

Report by Highland Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald exposes Highland care sector crisis as he calls for £60m rescue package

Report by Highland Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald exposes Highland care sector crisis as he calls for £60m rescue package

Home bargains issue ‘urgent recall’ over Easter plushies

Home bargains issue ‘urgent recall’ over Easter plushies

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