Health

A Highland MSP has raised concerns over the Scottish Government downplaying the impact of chronic pain in people’s lives.

Caithness projects for Green Health Week (May 3-11) include events at Castletown, Dunnet Forest, Wick and Lybster.

An 81-year-old will undertake a classic car fundraising drive from John O’Groats to Land’s End to thank the medical services that saved his life.

Cllr Ron Gunn opened up about the health issues that led to the hard decision to stand down from chairing the Caithness Committee.

Caithness pensioners worried about changes to a key benefit worth up to £441 a month have been urged to seek support as a new system rolls out.

Arty people from across Caithness are being invited to help support local blood donors and the lab at Caithness General Hospital.

Perthshire farmer and legendary agricultural comedian Jim Smith is bound for Caithness next month to perform at Wick Assembly Rooms on May 31.

Highland Council say information services for parents of children with autism will continue as part of a new project.

A Caithness man from a traveller background has made himself homeless after claiming he suffered months of harassment at his Thurso house.

Last November we launched our Give Blood, Save Lives campaign to bring in 5000 blood donations across the Highlands and Moray by Easter.

A team of staff from a firm with branches throughout the Highlands has become the latest to organise a corporate blood donation.

The launch event for a community project to bring people together and support mental health will take place at the Drill Hall in Castletown on May 3.

Having reported on others’ blood donations for several months, staff from Highland News and Media rolled up their sleeves for the cause themselves.

Scottish Government is slammed for leaving ‘frontline NHS staff dangerously overstretched and more prone to making mistakes’.

A moving memorial to a “well loved” and much missed Highland man has been installed in Inverness as a lasting tribute to him.

April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, and NHS Highland is taking the opportunity to raise awareness of bowel screening, which aims to spot IT early.

A mum who almost died after giving birth has added her voice to calls for more people to donate blood.

Forcing mums-to-be from Caithness to travel to Inverness “is no longer defensible”, CHAT has claimed after a report from a United Nations committee.

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.

A disabled Thurso woman talked candidly about the fear and horror she experienced as a wildfire encroached upon her home last Thursday.