Health

Views are being sought on a National Care Service to transform Scotland’s social care.

Technology cuts time for cardiac scans to less than five minutes.

The ceremony was carried out by businessman and Rotarian George Ross whose generosity provided the new site for community use.

CLAN's Light the North lighthouse trail has been officially launched.

Report expected to go before Scottish Parliament within weeks.

The first of its kind in Scotland, the state-of-the-art technology known as IQ SPECT CT can quickly take 4D images of the heart.

More people than ever will be offered the jab to help protect as many lives as possible this winter.

Safeguard will remain under review as NHS remobilises.

Cases have shown no signs of falling so far around Fraserburgh and NHS Highland is now seeing an increase focussed on Fort William.

Areas around Inverurie are the latest to show a spike in case numbers.

All young people 16 to 17 years of age will now be offered the coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination.

An overnight doubling of case numbers in NHS Grampian is being sustained by increases seen in Fraserburgh in the last week.

England has confirmed the move with Scotland also expected to make formal confirmation shortly.

Local and national landmarks were lit up red to mark the British Heart Foundation's 60th anniversary.

From next Monday restrictions will be eased further, but mask wearing will remain.

NHS Grampian has seen a further fall in cases in both Aberdeenshire, Moray and Aberdeen City.

The group says that the questionnaire makes little reference to the future use of Insch Memorial Hospital which remains empty of any inpatients.

The national number of daily cases has dropped below 1000 for the first time since the start of June.

MP David Duguid has raised the issue of spiralling waiting times in accident and emergency in Grampian.

Gillian Martin has applied for her constituency office to be a breastfeeding friendly workplace when it has safely reopened following the pandemic.