Health

Almost one in 10 operations at the Borders General Hospital at Melrose is being cancelled by medics there for non-clinical reasons, latest figures reveal.

Healthcare heroes have been honoured at this year’s NHS Borders Celebrating Excellence Awards.

Borders patients seen by a bogus psychiatrist currently serving five years in prison for fraud have been contacted by NHS Borders as part of an inquiry into her time working here.

Healthcare heroes have been honoured at this year’s NHS Borders Celebrating Excellence Awards.

A nurse found to have mistreated patients and wrongly administered drugs has been struck off the medical register again.

Borders rugby legend Doddie Weir has welcomed a vow by the Scottish Government to try to cut the red tape involved in handing out blue badges to motor neurone disease sufferers such as him.

A Jedburgh volunteer has been rewarded for her work leading walks for cancer sufferers.

People are being asked to avoid the Borders General Hospital’s accident and emergency department unless they require “urgent medical attention”.

A woman from Kirk Yetholm shaved around 10 minutes off her personal best finishing Sunday’s Scottish Half Marathon in East Lothian, in just over two hours and six minutes ... aged 72.

A Galashiels-based personal trainer managed to talk 22 of his clients into taking on a “Tough Mudder” course – just think loads of mud and obstacles – at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries in June, in order to raise funds for the stroke unit at the Borders General Hospital.

The first meeting of Carers First took place at the Kingsknowes Hotel, Galashiels, this week, organised by the Borders Carers Centre.

A power of superheroes assembled at the start line at Newcastle on Sunday, raising money for a new bladder scanner for ward nine of the Borders General Hospital.

The Borders nursing community has lost one of its leading lights following the death of Helen Russell. She was 81.

A Borders GP surgery has been closed with next to no prior warning.

In January of this year, Alzheimer Scotland Borders resource centre moved into Kelso town centre.

Borders health chiefs have voted to axe nearly half the region’s acute dementia beds. 

An announced inspection of four Borders community hospitals in May has led to a report roundly applauding the facilities’ staff.