Health

Rhona Martin was selected earlier this year to take part in a nine-month development programme (Pic: Lesley Martin)

Glenrothes nurse awarded prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse

Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy (Pic: Danyel VanReenen)

Councillors set to scrutinise NHS Fife’s huge projected £23m overspend

Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy (Pic: Danyel VanReenen)

Reduced hospital bed capacity partially to blame for longer A&E wait times

Parminder Singh, from Kirkcaldy, has thanked ambulance staff who helped save him after he had a cardiac arrest while at the gym. (Pic: Submitted)

Dad thanks ambulance staff who helped after he had a cardiac arrest at the gym

Rhona Martin of Glenrothes has been awarded the title of Queen's Nurse (Pic: Lesley Martin)

Fife nurse awarded prestigious title

Alistair Morris, acting chair of the Board, said it is crucial for NHS Fife to look longer term to deliver the savings measures.

Cash concerns as NHS Fife face projected £23 million overspend

The incident happened at St Andrews Community Hospital in February.

Reprimand for NHS Fife after person accessed patients' personal information

NHS Fife, which runs Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, is facing a growing funding crisis (Pic: Fife Free Press)

£15m overspend pushes NHS Fife to financial cliff edge

The Our Minds Matter backed programme is to help young people navigate their feelings. Picture – supplied

Ad Feature Funding offers free counselling service to LGBTQ+ community aged 12-18

Charlene Londra with son Gino (Pic: Fife Photo Agency)

Fife mother hopeful medicinal cannabis treatment become reality for epilepsy

Health bosses are looking fore GPs to take over the Fife practice (Pic: Pixabay)

Health bosses bid to find GPs to run busy surgery in Fife town

Fife Creamery is one of the local businesses that have been funding devices in the Lang Toun (Pic: Submitted)

Fife town named as a defibrillator blackspot by heart charity

Barbara Boyd hopes to raise awareness alongside charity Let's Talk About Mouth Cancer - (Pic: Fife Photo Agency)

Kirkcaldy woman urges mouth cancer self-examination

Familiar signage from lockdown (Pic: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Scottish Covid inquiry: Fife mum’s letter on anguish of restricted visits

NHS Fife was put under scrutiny at its annual review at Rothes Halls (Pic montage: Fife Free Press archives)

NHS Fife review: public scrutiny as board faces increased pressure on services

Pic: Lisa Ferguson

Over 1000 COVID deaths in Fife, new figures reveal as UK inquiry underway
More than 1000 people in Fife died because of COVID, official figures have revealed.

Stock image of person laid low with the cold (Pic: TSPL archives)

Fifers choked with the cold or a cough urged to stay away from hospital wards

Pete Black has spoken about the impact on his life and farming career as part of a new campaign launched by Scottish agricultural charity RSABI (Pic: Submitted)

Fife farmer opens up on impact of dyslexia to back new awareness campaign

Cast technician, Stuart Main applies a QR code to a patient's cast (Pic: NHS Fife)

Fife pioneers QR codes on stookies and splints patients can scan for information

Samantha Currie who survived breast cancer. Pic: Contributed

Initiative to cut waits for cancer treatment

The inspectors found much to praise, but their focus was on the condition of the older phase of the hospital (Pic: Fife Free Press)

Inspection raises ‘serious concerns’ over state of part of Victoria Hospital

The dental situation in Fife has been described as "dire" (Pic: Pixabay)

Just one dental practice in Fife accepting new NHS patients

Rosturk House Care Home, Cupar (Image from Google Maps)

Fife care home told to improve its services following unannounced inspection

Councillor Graeme Downie (Labour for West Fife & Coastal Villages) and the Scottish Labour Health spokesperson, MSP Jackie Baillie.

Kincardine Health Centre: More politicians show their support for campaign

Seescape Fife opens the doors of its hub to the public this week.

Sight loss charity set for open day

Craigie House Care Home, Crossgates (Google Maps)

Improvements made at Fife care home following earlier inspection report

Street view of the current Kincardine Health Centre (Google Maps)

Health Secretary to meet local politicians to discuss Kincardine Health Centre
Two local politicians are set to press the Scottish Health Secretary for the long-promised Kincardine Health Centre later this month.

The signage will soon be removed from the vaccination centre in Kirkcaldy's High Street (Pic: Scott Louden)

Signage set to come down after closure of Kirkcaldy COVID vaccine centre

David Torrance MSP with members of the Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Support Group and Nourish Staff. From left: Nourish family support manager, Stacey Donaldson, David Torrance MSP, and group founder Diane Wright. (Pic: Submitted)

Chronic pain support group in Kirkcaldy offers help to Fifers

The live chat tool aims to provide out of hours support for those experiencing self-harm (Pic: Pixabay)

Self-harm support charity with Kirkcaldy base launches new live chat service

Award winners pictured at the Dean Park Hotel, Kirkcaldy (Pic: NHS Fife)

Fife health staff honoured at annual awards ceremony

Catherine with her dad Tony in the garden at Walton hospital in Liverpool (left) and with him shortly after his diagnosis (Pics Brain Tumour Research)

Fife woman abseils Forth Bridge in fundraiser after dad died from a brain tumour

From left: Alex Paton, Inverkeithing High School; Heather Bett, senior manager, community children's services; Dr Joy Tomlinson, director of public health; Dr Lorna Watson, deputy director of public health; Pam Colburn, quality improvement officer, Fife Council; and Seth Tomlinson, Inverkeithing High (Pic: NHS Fife)

Kirkcaldy school launch for public report health with focus on young people

The figures covered staff working across NHS facilities, including the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy (Pic: Scott Louden)

Number of racists incidents against NHS staff in Fife revealed

There are 3368 patients per GP at Kinghorn Medical Practice. - one of three set to come under management (Pic: Google Maps)

Three Fife GP surgeries set to be run by new contractor

A&E Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy

Fife A&E: drop in patients seen in four hours but Fife above national average

NHS Fife has a huge estate and will have to 'make do' as no new funding is available (Pic: Fife Free Press)

No extra cash as Fife health bosses look to ’make do’ to run its buildings

The meeting will take place at Rothes Halls (Pic: Michael Gillen)

Fife health bosses set for annual review with Ministers – and public can attend

The UK's first drug consumption room in Glasgow has been given approval. (Credit: Getty Images)

UK's first drug consumption room gets approval to open in Glasgow

NHS Fife has revealed its overspend is becoming a growing issue (Pic: Scott Louden)

NHS Fife overspend hits £10m just four months into financial year

Kirsty McIntosh and Pauline Montgomery , new chair and voce-chair at Seascape (Pic: Submitted)

Fife charity Seescape announces new chair and vice-chair & appeals for trustees

The project aims to reduce fatal overdoses and drug-related harms. (Pic: TSPL)

Fife to lead £5m UK project to tackle fatal overdoses and drug-related harms

Fromm left: Claire Lee, service manager; Clare Cathcart, senior charge nurse; and Cath Jack, theatre manager (Pic: NHSFife)

£2m project completed to increase surgical capacity at Fife hospital

Those taking part in Cupar's Big Wee Cycle event braved the weather.

Cupar's Big Wee Cycle hailed a success

Dr Clare Murphy and Dr Alan Stewart, Path House Medical Practice partners at the helm of the merged practice (Pic: Danyel VanReenen)

Inside Kirkcaldy’s ‘super surgery’ after 6000 patients move to new location

Fife Sport and Leisure Trust have once again been nominated for the award (Pic: Kenny Smith)

Fife leisure trust up for top swimming lesson award

The new portal is being rolled out to patients in Fife (Pic: NHS Fife)

New portal lets Fifers manage hospital appointments on their phones and laptops

Changes were made to the appointments after the discovery of a new variant of covid (Pic: TSPL)

Calls for more appointments as Fifers struggle to get dates for Covid/flu jags

The vaccination programme will be brought forward (Pic: TSPL)

Fife set to make earlier start than planned to winter flu & COVID vaccinations

The membership deal and giveaway is to celebrate Kirkcaldy Leisure Centre's 10th birthday (Pic: Fife Free Press)

Kirkcaldy Leisure Centre to celebrate 10th anniversary with deal and giveaway

Mateusz Watorowski from Kirkcaldy has spoken of the benefits of using the vital sight loss service (Pic: Mateusz Watorowski)

Fife man urges people to make use of vital eye care service

Bill and Ian are within striking distance of reaching their £2k target

Guardbridge duo's 100 mile challenge to raise funds for Parkinson's research.

The clinic in Kirkcaldy for the winter flu and coronavirus vaccinations has moved from the High Street to Templehall Church in the town's Beauly Place. (Pic: Michael Gillen)

NHS Fife: Change of location for winter vaccine clinic in Kirkcaldy

NHS Fife's pupil support nursing team won the 'Health and Wellbeing' prize at the Children's Health Scotland Awards. (Pic: NHS Fife)

Recognition for NHS Fife team at the Children's Health Scotland Awards

Alzheimer Scotland's Memory Walks will take place in Kirkcaldy on Saturday, September 16 (Pic: Ashley Coombes)

Kirkcaldy set for Alzheimer disease charity walk