David Alston, as chair of the North Highland Community Health Partnership, stressed
the importance of maintaining the dialogue with the community and between the
professional groups, which had been built up during the consultation, and undertook
to report back on progress to a smaller group of clinicians, users, NAG members and
representatives of the Highland Council and CASE.
All agreed on the importance of advertising the posts widely, making them as
attractive as possible and promoting the benefits of living in Caithness, using local
knowledge and linking with other initiatives wherever possible.
Although the group work has come to an end, a number of issues have been identified which will be taken forward by the Board of NHS and by the Community Health Partnership, including the issues of patient and relatives accommodation in Inverness and the capacity for emergency retrieval of mothers and children from Wick to Raigmore.
