Health

Invernessian Duncan MacAulay explains what is it like to get a second chance at life after a heart transplant.

MSP Edward Mountain warns patients must ‘travel hundreds of miles for treatment when they are seriously ill.’

NHS Highland’s new director of public health has spoken about the importance of working together.

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Mum-of-three is a prisoner in her own bedroom for over 15 hours a week hooked up to a dialysis machine while she waits for a kidney donor.

A crucial campaigning body for elderly Highlanders is facing a threat to its existence after NHS Highland axed most of its funding.

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Having stared his donation journey in 1971 aged 17, David Edes took in his 71st birthday last week by giving blood at Inverness Donor Centre.

The Tain Tesco store where she was a familiar face will continue to fundraise.

Getting set to retire, Dr Tim Allison looks back on challenges and stresses the importance of small changes.

“Every day when I wake up, my daily mantra is to thank my donor and his family,” Angela Wilson says.

Scotland’s Social Care Minister Maree Todd praised an Easter Ross care home for its “ability to reconnect to the community” after the pandemic.

John Davidson joined a visually impaired walking group in the Highlands and learned that the support they offer is invaluable to its members

Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team was part of a massive emergency services response to the incident at the weekend.

The MP says: ‘We're told there's no money for a pool in Tain, but we've watched millions wasted on failed national projects’.

Mr Bush, who has Achiltibuie base, said: “I’m so proud to read ‘neglected tropical diseases' in the King's birthday honours”.

Talking about organ donation today can ease unimaginable decisions tomorrow.

As LibDem far north candidate David Green says 'it utterly stinks’ beautiful places like Dunnet Beach ‘are being blighted’.

In the ‘modest’ reshuffle First Minister John Swinney hands her one of the toughest briefs in the Scottish Government.

The health board confirms it was ‘not a cyber attack, and that no patient records were compromised’.