Health

Hospital patients travelling to Raigmore face weeks of disruption while roadworks take place outside its main entrance, NHS Highland has warned.

A former doctor was among those giving blood at a community donation session last week.

A Muir of Ord care home is set to feature in a new BBC documentary exploring the struggles faced by the care sector in the Highlands and Islands.

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

Highland reporter Federica Stefani tells of her first experience donating blood.

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

Leading Highland charities have joined forces in a bid to enhance disability services in the region.

A private independent clinic in the Highlands has become the first in Scotland to buy a state-of-the-art open MRI scanner.

Members of the Inverness BID team rolled up their sleeves to donate blood as part of our Give Blood, Save Lives campaign.

If you want to give blood that’s great - but did you know that there are different kinds of donation you can make?

NHS Highland’s column looks at Unicef’s life-changing work.

But despite being ordered to make a number of improvements - including on infection outbreak reporting - the inspectors also reported many strengths.

Local authorities such as Highland Council are being called upon to review ASL provision processes.

Moving Raigmore Hospital’s mailroom to the Longman is “hard to justify” and “robust steps must be taken” to prevent impacts on tests, an MSP has said.

Trading standards have seized a significant quantity of illicit tobacco products from a retailer in the Highlands, the local authority has announced.

‘Shambolic’ Raigmore Hospital staff shortages left a man traumatised after waiting two months for urgent surgery to tackle a life-and-death condition.

It wasn’t until his dad contracted leukemia that Neil Urquhart began donating blood regularly.

NHS Highland shared that there has been “potential risk of contamination” to the hot water supply in the tower block of Raigmore Hospital.

“If I had the chance to speak to the people who gave up half an hour of their time to help me, I’d love to thank them for saving my life.”

NHS Highland reveal they are “aiming” to re-open a Gairloch care home in spring of this year.