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Extra £2.6m for National Treatment Centre Highland paves way for thousands more operations

Extra £2.6m for National Treatment Centre Highland paves way for thousands more operations

Extra £2.6m for National Treatment Centre Highland paves way for thousands more operations

Thousands more operations will be carried out at the National Treatment Centre (NTC) Highland thanks to extra funding of £2.6 million.


Transplant football team leave debut Euros with ‘heads held high’

Transplant football team leave debut Euros with ‘heads held high’

Transplant football team leave debut Euros with ‘heads held high’

The team was founded by an Inverness-based fire service worker, and competed against Europe’s best last weekend.


Rolling our sleeves up for blood donation

Rolling our sleeves up for blood donation

Rolling our sleeves up for blood donation

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


NHS Highland and NHS Grampian paid out a combined £34m in patient compensation

NHS Highland and NHS Grampian paid out a combined £34m in patient compensation

NHS Highland and NHS Grampian paid out a combined £34m in patient compensation

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


‘I wouldn’t be alive’: mum backs life-saving blood donor campaign

‘I wouldn’t be alive’: mum backs life-saving blood donor campaign

‘I wouldn’t be alive’: mum backs life-saving blood donor campaign

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


Why Black Isle woman is on the run to help brain research charity

Why Black Isle woman is on the run to help brain research charity

Why Black Isle woman is on the run to help brain research charity

The life-threatening shock of her husband’s sudden brain bleed has led a Black Isle woman to the brink of a payback marathon challenge.


‘Huntington’s disease took my gran, mum and sister, but I won’t let it change my life!’

‘Huntington’s disease took my gran, mum and sister, but I won’t let it change my life!’

‘Huntington’s disease took my gran, mum and sister, but I won’t let it change my life!’

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.


Highland HeArt Trail launches - will you spot all 23 sculptures?

Highland HeArt Trail launches - will you spot all 23 sculptures?

Highland HeArt Trail launches - will you spot all 23 sculptures?

Beautiful artworks have popped up at sites dotted all across the Highlands - after the Highland Hospice launched its latest sculpture trail.


Highland Council assistant chief-exec says ‘alternative ways’ to fund autism information service were offered in bid to prevent closure

Highland Council assistant chief-exec says ‘alternative ways’ to fund autism information service were offered in bid to prevent closure

Highland Council assistant chief-exec says ‘alternative ways’ to fund autism information service were offered in bid to prevent closure

Assistant chief-exec Kate Lackie says the local authority had continued to fund the service ‘without fail’ and would have continued to do so.


Evanton’s new trishaw is contagiously ‘putting smiles on faces’

Evanton’s new trishaw is contagiously ‘putting smiles on faces’

Evanton’s new trishaw is contagiously ‘putting smiles on faces’

An Evanton trishaw project is already contagiously “putting a smile on people’s faces” in the village, with hopes of reducing loneliness.


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