Cash to slash waiting times at Inverness's Raigmore Hospital
NHS Highland has been given a major funding boost to improve waiting times which have been among the worst in Scotland for some procedures.
The £2 million cash injection includes £1.2 million to install another Vanguard mobile operating theatre at the city’s Raigmore Hospital to help it meet national 12-week treatment time guarantees.
And new NHS Highland chief executive Iain Stewart will tell the board at a meeting on Tuesday that they are also getting £843,000 to reduce waiting times in specific specialities including ophthalmology (eye cataracts), general surgery and endoscopy.
In further good news, it has also been revealed that a cure may at last have been found for the problem of selfish motorists taking advantage of free parking at Raigmore Hospital.
For more details see today's Inverness Courier.
