THE HILLSWICK GP practice is to stop providing its own out of hours cover - becoming the last Shetland mainland health centre to do so. The practice will be.
THE POOL of available doctors who can work in Scotland appears to be less than in the past, according to NHS Shetland’s medical director Dr Kirsty Brightwell. She added that there has also been an increase in retirements and people choosing to work “flexibly" for a number of.
A LOCAL doctor who heads up Shetland’s only remaining independent medical practice says it is now more than a year that a vacancy for an associate GP has remained unfilled. It comes as the chair of the Scottish arm of the British Medical Association (BMA) has fired a warning.
THE LEVENWICK Medical Practice will go under the management of NHS Shetland from Sunday (1 October). This means that it will no longer operate as an independent practice. The move is in response to a request from principal GP Dr Esther Mitchell, who has asked to pass the.
NHS Shetland has reminded people that Covid and other respiratory illnesses will still be circulating in the community - amid reports of an increase in infection after the Tall Ships. Director of public health Dr Susan Laidlaw, however, reiterated that community testing for.