Barra patient’s 41 hour trip for 10 minute appointment on Lewis
Isles MP calls for action to improve inter-island patient travel arrangements
Isles MP calls for action to improve inter-island patient travel arrangements
Local patients said three appointment letters from Oban hospital had failed to reach his Oban home
An ill Oban OAP who missed an urgent appointment at Oban hospital due to late post, nearly missed her rescheduled appointment when a second letter didn’t reach her home, 12 days days after it was posted from the other side of town
Royal Mail is under fire again after a pensioner in Oban, who fears she may have cancer, missed seeing medics at Oban hospital because her appointment letter did not arrive at her Longsdale home in time.
Health chiefs have pledged to continue their work to minimise the number of delayed discharges for patients in Argyll and Bute
‘There are a few of us from the first Covid strike who have been to hell and back but walked away from it.’
The Oban facial aesthetics clinics will be run by experienced dental specialist Dr Martin MacEachen.
Lorn and Isles Hospital has been moved to level one restrictions after only essential visiting was previously allowed after a surge of Covid cases from festivities.
Essential visiting rules have been introduced at Oban’s Lorn and Islands Hospital and CalMac is running a temporary timetable until January 23 at least because of increasing Covid cases