Lewis Ritchie will visit Skye tomorrow (Tuesday 28th May) to assess the progress of the recommendations set out in his out of hours healthcare report for Skye, Lochalsh and South…
The Cabinet Secretary for Health Jeane Freeman will visit Skye and Lochalsh on Monday (27th May) with constituency MSP Kate Forbes. Ms Freeman will be taken on a tour of…
The new interim chair of NHS Highland has told the Free Press he is “looking forward to the challenge” of leading the local health authority. Professor Boyd Robertson – a…
We have sympathy with David Alston. He was parachuted into the chair of NHS Highland three years ago. As a standing non-executive director he must have had an inkling of…
NHS Highland announced today that David Alston will step down from his role as Chair of the Board with immediate effect. Mr Alston first joined NHS Highland as a Non-Executive…
The chair of Raasay Community Council has said there is a “feeling at last” that the community and NHS Highland are now working together to address issues which have impeded…
The provision of 24-hour urgent care at Portree Hospital is on schedule to be fully operational by May of this year, according to the Ritchie report steering group which met…
Sir Lewis Ritchie is to attend a public information session in Portree this evening (Tuesday 4th December) as part of a review into the progress of the recommendations set out…
NHS Highland have defended mental health service provision in Skye and Lochalsh, following comments made last week by Sergeant Bruce Crawford of Portree police. A spokesman for the health authority…
By Adam Gordon MSPs today agreed to keep open SOS-NHS Skye’s petition calling for the reversal of the major services changes to healthcare in Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross…
