Health

CHAT has insisted that the need to expand local healthcare is “undeniable” after compiling figures on the travel commitments for Caithness patients.

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

A Lybster man raised over £3000 for Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance with a sponsored bike ride and talked about his encounter with a poisonous adder.

University researchers have said that Caithness should be proud of an “elite midwife” from two centuries ago who delivered almost 4000 babies.

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

A model and riding stables owner from Lyth headed up a fundraising walk along with her therapy horse, Mr Bojangles, and pet chihuahua, Louis Vuitton.

A dedicated group of fundraisers has donated equipment worth nearly £23,000 to health practitioners in Caithness over the last 12 months.

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’.

But the health board say appointments are going ahead and ‘patient care is continuing safely across all our hospitals and services’.

Caithness campaigners have emphasised that “far too many mums-to-be have to travel to Raigmore” after birth figures from 2016 onwards were released.

He began to come to terms with dying hundreds of miles away from family and friends after traveling to Newcastle for transplant op.

A self-professed tractor addict is set to embark on an epic journey in a classic tractor from John O’Groats to Land’s End.

An entrepreneur from Wick has been honoured with one of the world’s most respected creative accolades.

Discussing with your family whether you want to be an organ donor, and making your decision known on the organ donor register is crucial.

An epic challenge which saw a semi-retired farmer take a vintage tractor from Land’s End to John O’Groats is closing in on its fundraising target.

We hear of the powerful journeys of five individuals from the Highlands who have transformed their lives following cancer diagnoses.

Only 60% of families currently give consent.