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Council backs Skye ward members over Home Farm funding
Chair of the Eilean a’ Cheò committee, Councillor John Gordon said the last few months had not been easy for Skye, especially for those who lost loved ones during the Covid-19 outbreak at the Home Farm care home.
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Home Farm purchase welcomed by local councillor who lost father in virus outbreak
Councillor Gordon, together with fellow Skye members, John Finlayson, Calum Munro and Calum MacLeod, has signed a motion which will come before today’s (Thursday) meeting of the full Highland Council and which calls on the local authority to write to the Scottish Government asking it to agree to underwrite the estimated £1.2million annual revenue costs of the home.
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NHS Highland in deal to buy and run Home Farm care home at Portree
A total of 10 residents of Home Farm care home at Portree died after an outbreak of coronavirus earlier this year.
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Skye care home operator in talks over transferring facility to NHS
The Care Inspectorate has decided to no longer pursue the cancellation of the service’s registration through the courts.’
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World’s first battery-powered cruise liner to call at Fort William in September
With a gross tonnage of 20890, MS Roald Amundsen and her sistership MS Fridtjof Nansen are the first of two hybrid ships Hurtigruten will add to its fleet over the next few years.
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Public ownership possibility for Skye care home
MP Iain Blackford says court action paves the way for transfer of ownership of Home Farm Care Home to NHS Highland.
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Skye care home receive short-term stay of execution
Roddy Dunlop QC for the Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland said his client was not completely satisfied that the motion for interim suspension of the licence should be withdrawn.
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All infected Skye care home staff to now get full sick pay
HC-One, the operator of Home Farm, confirmed the change of heart this week after a deal said to have been brokered by local MP, Ian Blackford.