Health

The new project is supported by the Highland Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund.

Overnight respite for families with children with learning disabilities is set to be reinstated at Thurso’s Thor House by the summer.

Strathspey Thistle FC committee member Margaret Clark says blood donations helped her ill nephew live longer.

While supplements and medications may have a place, they should not be a substitute for a balanced diet and staying active, says our columnist.

‘It’s worth it’ – long-term donors explain why they give blood.

Michael Matthews is desperate to stay in the north-west Sutherland community, where he has a strong support system.

“I think our parents would be really proud that we followed in their footsteps and carried on the family tradition of giving blood.”

It is considered one of the worst examples in Scotland of a patient fit to go home but cannot because of a lack of care.

A GP surgery failed to immediately refer a patient to hospital over "highly abnormal" heart readings just hours before they died of a stroke.

Confusion followed announcements of a train cancellation on the Wick to Inverness service on Tuesday morning with different explanations cited.

Labour MSP Rhoda Grant was told £200m to be spent on the issue and there are weekly meetings looking at the crisis.

The Scottish Government said yesterday vaccination services removed from GPs to be delivered at health board level will return to local doctors.

MSP Fergus Ewing has been campaigning on the issue, saying a move to centralise responsibility at health board level doesn’t work in the Highlands.

A charity emergency service is set to launch the UK’s most advanced helicopter air ambulance of its type.

A charity emergency service is set to launch the UK’s most advanced helicopter air ambulance of its type.

Most of the people you’ll see in a blood donation session are actually donor carers rather than nurses. But what does that mean? And what do they do?

Mikeysline, first established in 2015, has been offering confidential and non-judgmental support for almost a decade.

Action must be taken soon to bring back vaccinations into GP practices, a Highland MSP said during a Holyrood debate on rural health last night.

Figures from Transport Scotland show the extent of closures on vital route for Caithness folk to access centralised services

Those eligible to get a free Covid vaccine have until the end of January to get the jag - whilst flu vaccine is available until the end of March.