Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The decision by the Scottish government health secretary, Angela Constance, that building a new Monklands Hospital on the current plans would not deliver value for money for the public purse at £2.1 billion, could be of note in any proposal for a new Gilbert Bain Hospital.

The Bressay ferry Leirna has arrived at Shearers in Lerwick harbour for the next part of its three-week-long annual docking schedule.

Meanwhile the disruption on Yell Sound appears to be over, for now.

After the coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked on an NHS patient transfer from Baltasound to Sumburgh yesterday evening, there has been another helicopter NHS patient transfer in Shetland. This was from Fair Isle to the emergency landing site in Lerwick.

Meanwhile NHS Shetland is receiving a high number of job applications from overseas which do not meet eligibility criteria and are thought to be generated using artificial intelligence.

Once upon on a time, some decades ago, Shetland had one of the worst records in Scotland of poor dental hygiene. A couple of things helped to change that, and those were the creation of a school dental service and then an NHS dental service, including in the, then, new Lerwick Health Centre. Another step forward more recently was the establishment of Childsmile.

There have been three coastguard coordinated incidents: a helicpter medical evactuation, a helicopter patient transfer and to a person endangering themselves.