Health

Two new heart machines get the thumbs up from Caithness General hospital’s accident and emergency team.

Rapid community testing will be available at Thurso and Wick next week in a move aimed at helping to prevent any further spread of Covid-19.

NHS Highland has recorded no fresh Covid infections in the past day.

Labour's Highland and Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant lodged a motion on the same day she took the oath in the chamber of the Scottish Parliament.

Wick High School's counsellor has issued a message of support to pupils as part of the current Mental Health Awareness Week.

A COUPLE of additional cases of Covid-19 have been recorded across the NHS Highland area.

FIVE more people have tested positive for the coronavirus across the NHS Highland area.

Fourteen people who took their own lives over the past year were remembered at a gathering in Wick at the weekend organised by No More Lost Souls.

A new service directing individuals and communities to trusted mental health support has been launched during Mental Health Awareness Week.

Police and ambulance services attended to an injured man in Wick on Friday evening.

A Caithness business is taking part in an initiative to highlight a debilitating condition that affects over five per cent of Scotland.

ANOTHER four Covid-19 infections have been detected across the NHS Highland area.

Highland Council is allocating up to £200k of its Cycling, Walking and Safer Routes 2021/22 grant award to the delivery of a new 20mph programme.

A new project which aims to help mental health is being launched in the Highlands.

Thurso endurance coach helps teams raise more than £4500 for charity after original plans had to be cancelled

TWO more cases of Covid-19 were confirmed across the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours.

A Caithness woman has spoken of her devastation after losing her 52-year-old husband to a brain tumour

A FURTHER four new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded across the NHS Highland health board area.

Covid could be effectively eradicated in the UK by this winter, one of the country's top microbiologists has claimed.

NO new cases of Covid-19 were recorded across the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours – the first time since late August.