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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.

Scottish singer Nathan Evans opens up about mental health battle

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.”

OPINION: Learning during furlough was a way out of a dark place

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

‘They are not just healthcare workers, they are lifelines’

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

3000 roll up sleeves to help blood campaign - so far

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.

Do you have it in you to be a lifesaver?

“People just like you and me - save lives every day without even knowing we’re doing it. That’s because we’re blood donors,” says our columnist.

Glowing Inspectorate report for popular Badenoch care home

Very Good all round for the Wade Centre in Kingussie

NHS Highland falls behind national child and adolescent mental health treatment times

Scotland reaches target for the first time as wellbeing minister and far north MSP Maree Todd hails ‘encouraging’ figures.

Could Legionnaires Disease be behind Raigmore Hospital contamination alert?

NHS Highland says it is routine to test for the Legionella bacteria in water contamination cases.

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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

Scottish singer Nathan Evans opens up about mental health battle

Scottish singer Nathan Evans opens up about mental health battle

OPINION: Learning during furlough was a way out of a dark place

OPINION: Learning during furlough was a way out of a dark place

‘They are not just healthcare workers, they are lifelines’

‘They are not just healthcare workers, they are lifelines’

3000 roll up sleeves to help blood campaign - so far

3000 roll up sleeves to help blood campaign - so far

Do you have it in you to be a lifesaver?

Do you have it in you to be a lifesaver?

Glowing Inspectorate report for popular Badenoch care home

Glowing Inspectorate report for popular Badenoch care home

NHS Highland falls behind national child and adolescent mental health treatment times

NHS Highland falls behind national child and adolescent mental health treatment times

Could Legionnaires Disease be behind Raigmore Hospital contamination alert?

Could Legionnaires Disease be behind Raigmore Hospital contamination alert?

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