Health

The opticians can write prescriptions for customers with conditions affecting the eye and surrounding tissues.

Fears over the closure of GMED services in Peterhead were raised just weeks after opening times were cut to the minor injuries unit.

ROBERT Gordon University (RGU) is to host a Mental Health Nursing Showcase to encourage more people from the north-east into the profession.

WELLBEING and sustainable employment are to take centre stage at a drop-in event coming to Moray soon.

The securing of the final funding needed by the Friends of Haughton Park means that work can now get underway on the project.

GO has been awarded Scottish government funding until 2027 for the Support in the Right Direction programme.

A NORTH-east charity is joining forces with NHS Grampian to provide insight and learning for young people interested in a career in nursing

The dad of a baby born four weeks prematurely in Aberdeenshire is running a marathon to raise funds for the Scottish Ambulance Service’s ScotSTAR team

The supply and sale of wet wipes containing plastic will be banned across the UK following overwhelming support during public consultation.

Antares Property Development Ltd is looking to build the OaKley Play and Life-Skills Centre out at Coneyhatch.

NHS Grampian is launching a new website in partnership with The Archie Foundation to support Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and linked services.

The new information campaign has been launched ahead of Aberdeen’s Low Emission Zone being enforced in less than two months.

A charity gig held at the Hopeville Social Club in Inverurie as seen over £6400 raised in support of bowel cancer support and research.

The successful completion of a trial of the initiative by Scottish agricultural charity, RSABI, and ANM Group sees a new leader for the scheme.

NHS Grampian’s “failed infrastructure” has been upgraded to the highest category — with funding half a billion pounds less than improvements bill.

DESPITE agreeing £36 million of cuts last month, NHS Grampian’s budget still has not been signed off by the Scottish Government.

Fyvie Oldmeldrum Medical Group will now be handed over to new owners Newburn Medical at the start of June.

Cancer care charity Maggie’s Aberdeen is celebrating 11 years of support in the north-east with the return of its glamorous fundraising ball.

Frontline north-east staff members from the Scottish Ambulance Service will appear on a new series of Paramedics on Scene.

Social care charity VSA has announced it will be supporting young and adult unpaid carers living across Aberdeenshire.