Health

In a highly successful mission, members and dependants of the Black Watch 3rd Battalion joined forces to give blood together last week.

Callous thieves have left a groundbreaking Inverness charity climbing centre with a whopping £2500 bill after a break-in.

More than 3000 of you have now done your bit to boost blood supplies across Highland and Moray since we launched our Give Blood, Save Lives campaign.

The new post has come about through the efforts of local people, who worked with the charity Parkinson’s UK to campaign for more support.

“Our greatest wish is to give Abbey the beautiful send-off she deserves,” says Abbey Robertson’s sister and brother.

YOUR VIEWS: Concerns over substation plans near Beauly and recycling, while patient is praised.

“People just like you and me - save lives every day without even knowing we’re doing it. That’s because we’re blood donors,” says our columnist.

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

Staff and patients at Lochardil Pharmacy were fortunate to escape injury when a car smashed into the entrance of the building in January.

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

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

YOUR VIEWS: Readers are divided over how to take a recent inspection report on Raigmore Hospital

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

Inverness Courier Reporter Federica Stefani tells of her first experience donating blood.

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

A private independent clinic in Inverness 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.