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NHS Highland relies on four other health boards to provide lifesaving vascular treatment

05 August 2025
NHS Highland relies on four other health boards to provide lifesaving vascular treatment

NHS Highland relies on four other health boards to provide lifesaving vascular treatment

05 August 2025

Bosses are told the system is surviving off emergency protocols and locum cover during search for long-term solution.


Highland deliberate self-harm cases reach 1547 in five years according to new figures

01 August 2025
Highland deliberate self-harm cases reach 1547 in five years according to new figures

Highland deliberate self-harm cases reach 1547 in five years according to new figures

01 August 2025

LibDem Caithness, Sutherland and Ross candidate David Green says ‘clearly not enough is being done’.


Four years since NHS Highland hit A&E waiting time target leaving almost 60,000 suffering delays

27 July 2025
Four years since NHS Highland hit A&E waiting time target leaving almost 60,000 suffering delays

Four years since NHS Highland hit A&E waiting time target leaving almost 60,000 suffering delays

27 July 2025

Lib Dem far north candidate David Green says hardworking doctors and nurses ‘are not being given the resources they need.’


Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes says she understands local concerns about renewable projects

26 July 2025
Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes says she understands local concerns about renewable projects

Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes says she understands local concerns about renewable projects

26 July 2025

But she insists she is unable to attend a meeting of MPs and MSPs in August.


UHI records first and second places in Scotland for satisfaction with its nursing and mental health nursing courses

26 July 2025
UHI records first and second places in Scotland for satisfaction with its nursing and mental health nursing courses

UHI records first and second places in Scotland for satisfaction with its nursing and mental health nursing courses

26 July 2025

The university secured an overall 92% satisfaction rate in the 2025 National Student Survey.


Public feedback on Highland renewables projects prompts strong response from MSP

26 July 2025
Public feedback on Highland renewables projects prompts strong response from MSP

Public feedback on Highland renewables projects prompts strong response from MSP

26 July 2025

A Highland MSP has reported back key findings from a public meeting on the expansion of renewables projects.


Energy ministers Gillian Martin and Michael Shanks won’t attend meeting on Highland renewable projects

25 July 2025
Energy ministers Gillian Martin and Michael Shanks won’t attend meeting on Highland renewable projects

Energy ministers Gillian Martin and Michael Shanks won’t attend meeting on Highland renewable projects

25 July 2025

But around 10 other local MPs and MSPs are expected in Inverness with some yet to confirm.


Energy ministers Gillian Martin and Michael Shanks won’t attend meeting on Highland renewable projects

25 July 2025
Energy ministers Gillian Martin and Michael Shanks won’t attend meeting on Highland renewable projects

Energy ministers Gillian Martin and Michael Shanks won’t attend meeting on Highland renewable projects

25 July 2025

But around 10 other local MPs and MSPs are expected in Inverness with some yet to confirm.


Exclusive: Top New Craigs mental health professionals reveal for the first time about losing a patient

24 July 2025
Exclusive: Top New Craigs mental health professionals reveal for the first time about losing a patient

Exclusive: Top New Craigs mental health professionals reveal for the first time about losing a patient

24 July 2025

Dr Neil McNamara says ‘there will be a sadness there, a sorrow’ and a ‘terrible sense of guilt’.


Highland GP is using social media to ‘abuse’ woman raped by his son twice

22 July 2025
Highland GP is using social media to ‘abuse’ woman raped by his son twice

Highland GP is using social media to ‘abuse’ woman raped by his son twice

22 July 2025

But Ellie Wilson hits back saying ‘I won’t be silenced’ despite the toll taken by ‘utterly abhorrent’ posts.


LibDems ‘pot zero’ plan aims to aims to halve energy bills in a decade

18 July 2025
LibDems ‘pot zero’ plan aims to aims to halve energy bills in a decade

LibDems ‘pot zero’ plan aims to aims to halve energy bills in a decade

18 July 2025

As MP Angus MacDonald slams ‘ludicrous’ Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch renewable energy ‘myths’.


Highland Green Freeport in race to secure ‘generational’ employment after amassing £890m of investment

17 July 2025
Highland Green Freeport in race to secure ‘generational’ employment after amassing £890m of investment

Highland Green Freeport in race to secure ‘generational’ employment after amassing £890m of investment

17 July 2025

Chief executive Calum Macpherson says North Sea renewables ‘should take 50 to 100 years just to build out’.


Highland Green Freeport in race to secure ‘generational’ employment after amassing £890m of investment

17 July 2025
Highland Green Freeport in race to secure ‘generational’ employment after amassing £890m of investment

Highland Green Freeport in race to secure ‘generational’ employment after amassing £890m of investment

17 July 2025

In an exclusive interview Green Freeport chief executive Calum Macpherson says North Sea renewables ‘should take 50 to 100 years just to build out’.


Last chance for Highlanders to make their views known on community benefit from green energy

16 July 2025
Last chance for Highlanders to make their views known on community benefit from green energy

Last chance for Highlanders to make their views known on community benefit from green energy

16 July 2025

MP Angus MacDonald says billions are being lost abroad to foreign-owned utility companies.


In the Highlands and Moray one in five children are living in poverty

14 July 2025
In the Highlands and Moray one in five children are living in poverty

In the Highlands and Moray one in five children are living in poverty

14 July 2025

There has been little change to the numbers since 2014.


Royal Mail’s ‘unacceptable collapse’ in Wester Ross is impacting NHS medical supplies

10 July 2025
Royal Mail’s ‘unacceptable collapse’ in Wester Ross is impacting NHS medical supplies

Royal Mail’s ‘unacceptable collapse’ in Wester Ross is impacting NHS medical supplies

10 July 2025

MP Angus MacDonald says delays risk the ‘irreversible damage’ to locals and it isn’t ‘just about late birthday cards or missing Amazon parcels’.


WATCH: Ed Miliband says cutting Scotland’s energy costs ‘unfair’ to Midlands and South of England

10 July 2025
WATCH: Ed Miliband says cutting Scotland’s energy costs ‘unfair’ to Midlands and South of England

WATCH: Ed Miliband says cutting Scotland’s energy costs ‘unfair’ to Midlands and South of England

10 July 2025

The Labour government’s energy secretary fears businesses there could ‘face damage to their competitiveness’.


Scottish Government accused of ‘conscious’ decision to ‘strip out specialist care in the Highlands’

10 July 2025
Scottish Government accused of ‘conscious’ decision to ‘strip out specialist care in the Highlands’

Scottish Government accused of ‘conscious’ decision to ‘strip out specialist care in the Highlands’

10 July 2025

MSP Edward Mountain slams the loss of vascular service as ‘fundamentally dangerous and inadequate’.


REVEALED: Highland Council failed to fund road maintenance since 2018 by £90 million

04 July 2025
REVEALED: Highland Council failed to fund road maintenance since 2018 by £90 million

REVEALED: Highland Council failed to fund road maintenance since 2018 by £90 million

04 July 2025

New figures reveal that the current annual shortfall is around £13 million.


Highland MPs and MSPs set to attend second community council renewables convention

02 July 2025
Highland MPs and MSPs set to attend second community council renewables convention

Highland MPs and MSPs set to attend second community council renewables convention

02 July 2025

The gathering on August 12 is focussed on ‘respecting local democracy’.


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