Health

The ANM Group Charitable Trust has awarded £7500 to charity RSABI to support the Health Hut initiative to improve the wellbeing of farmers.

The service is celebrating its one year anniversary.

A NHS Grampian senior staff nurse has led a project to improve the experience families have with medicines at Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

Public Health Scotland is encouraging older adults in the north-east to look out for their invitation letters for the Respiratory Syncytial Virus jab.

NHS Grampian is appealing to local people to “only order what you need” when it comes to prescriptions as part of a new campaign to reduce wastage.

A new group is under way in Buckie to help people recover from addiction.

E. COLI legal investigations are underway after a person was poisoned by an Asda sandwich in Elgin.

A PAIR of unique benches are set to improve the lives of Huntly hospital patients, after local community groups came together to have them built.

The dangers and drawbacks of vaping were in the spotlight for Buckie area P7 youngsters when they attended this year’s Community Alert Day (CAD)

Scottish first responders and medical staff have raised more than £33,500 as part of The Archie Foundation’s Battle of the Badges tournaments.

SCRAPPING overnight care at Huntly’s MIU is “an absolute joke”, said a local mum whose son (3) was one of its last out-of-hours patients.

Three Minor Injury Units in Huntly, Fraserburgh and Peterhead are set to close overnight from Monday.

NHS Grampian supported Clean Air Day in a bid to improve local understanding of the impact it has on health and inspire action.

Confidence to Cook is a NHS package and involves training partners who work within the community to be able to deliver cooking classes.

NHS Grampian’s clinical research unit at Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital has supported a study looking to improve treatments offered to children.

Professor George Youngson CBE has taken on the role of patron at The Archie Foundation.

NHS Grampian has launched a new scheme to help teachers and school staff better support pupils with ADHD.

CLOSING Huntly’s Minor Injury Unit (MIU) overnight will lead to “catastrophic consequences”, according to a retired top doctor.

Staff at Parklands Care Homes are being given the opportunity to take part in a two-day Mental Health First Aid training programme.

Skye Thain (20) spoke about deciding to volunteer for VoiceAbility while studying in Glasgow.