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Patients at the Gilbert Bain hospital will only be allowed visitors for two hours each day. NHS Shetland has said that visiting times will be restricted to 3-4pm and 7-8pm daily, and each patient will be asked only to have "a maximum of two visitors at a time". This follows the earlier advice ... Read more...
The Ronas Ward at the Gilbert Bain Hospital is being brought back into clinical use as NHS Shetland has activated its "pandemic disease plan". (more…) Read more...
The Sumburgh-based coastguard rescue helicopter was called out twice on Friday to take oil workers to Lerwick for medical attention. The first call came at 10.55am, requesting that the helicopter go to the platform 98 miles northeast of Sumburgh. A man was flown to the Clickimin landing site in t... Read more...
The Coastguard helicopter was called out twice on Christmas Day to airlift people to the Shetland Mainland. The first call came just after 3am when the helicopter was called to an offshore rig 140 miles northeast of Sumburgh to collect a man who had been involved in an accident. The man was ta... Read more...
Around 30 people attended a hustings debate on Saturday, where those standing in the Lerwick South by-election faced questions on issues including poverty, climate change and transport. Five candidates – Gary Robinson, Caroline Henderson, Arwed Wenger, Frances Valente and Stephen Flaws – have... Read more...
A crewman has been flown from an offshore supply vessel in urgent need of medical attention. The Sumburgh-based rescue helicopter was scrambled to evacuate the 64-year-old from the vessel, which was west of Shetland at the time. He was flown to the emergency landing site in Lerwick for transfe... Read more...
The Gilbert Bain Hospital remains fully operational despite leaking caused by yesterday's (Monday's) downpour, NHS Shetland has said. "All patient services and clinics are running as usual and contingency plans are in place if the water damage becomes more extensive", said a health service statem... Read more...
It took a while, but the first baby to be born at the Gilbert Bain Hospital made his much-anticipated entry early on Thursday morning. Baby Ander Rotolo came into the world at 2.53am on 4th January, weighing in at a healthy 7lb and six ounces. Ander is the second child to Eileen Thomson and Gu... Read more...
A battling baby girl is looking forward to her first Christmas – but only after surviving a life-threatening condition which saw her take to the skies by air ambulance during the height of Storm Caroline. Tot Elsy Williamson was diagnosed with bronchiolitis earlier this month when she was barel... Read more...
Inside this week's Shetland Times... Holyrood backs motion calling for fair ferry funding as parties unite but SNP calls out Lib Dems Multi-million-pound revamp of the Toft pier given thumbs up by councillors despite EU funding worries Schools closed and ferries cancelled as 'Storm Caroli... Read more...