Manchester United are reportedly 'in the front row' to sign Inter Milan player Denzel Dumfries during the summer transfer window.
01.02.2023 - 11:43 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A review of community hospitals across the region is under way.
Facilities in Kirkcudbright, Newton Stewart, Langholm and Moffat were mothballed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Pressure has been growing to have them reopened, with the health board revealing in December there would shortly be a review of community bed base requirements.
Now, the region’s health and social care partnership is asking people to share their thoughts on intermediate community care – which includes care homes and cottage hospitals.
Strategic planning director David Rowland said: “We’re really pleased to now be able to launch an extremely important undertaking that will see us working in partnership with the communities right across our region.
“In broad terms, intermediate care describes what help people are accessing between an acute hospital setting and what they are able to manage independently at home.
“It can be about helping people remain at home when they’re becoming more dependent on care or helping them to recover from illness, a fall or an operation. It can be about preventing people from going into hospital unnecessarily or returning home more quickly after a hospital stay.
“Some of the key locations which feature in the delivery of intermediate care in Dumfries and Galloway are its many care homes, the facilities which offer respite care and its cottage hospitals.
“We’re asking everyone to come on board, and, from their own experience and knowledge of others’, to help build our approaches in an aspect of health and social care which is set to play a vital role in coming years.”
The opinions will form part of Right Care, Right Place: Intermediate Care, which is being used to ensure the partnership is best placed to
Manchester United are reportedly 'in the front row' to sign Inter Milan player Denzel Dumfries during the summer transfer window.
A British Sign Language plan that has been adopted for the past five years in Dumfries and Galloway is set to be ripped up because it’s not good enough.
The storms which hit the region late last year have left Dumfries and Galloway Council with a roads repair bill of nearly £500,000.
Doonhamers are being urged to support relief efforts for those affected by the earthquakes which hit Turkey and Syria.
Molly-Mae Hague had a difficult two days after her cat Eggy nearly fell off the roof when he got stuck up there.The former Love Island contestant, who featured on the show in 2019 with Greg O'Shea and Amber Gill, recently welcomed her first baby with her boxer boyfriend, Tommy Fury. After the name was previously teased by the likes of Maura Higgins and, coincidentally Molly-Mae herself, the happy couple revealed that they called her Bambi. But amid the hurdles of being new parents, with Molly-Mae admitting to feeling sleep deprived, she experienced more stress when Eggy cut stuck on the roof of the couple’s £3.5 million Chesire mansion.
Vital early intervention work in Dumfries and Galloway is giving hundreds of kids a better chance in life – and saving authorities nearly £17m per year.
A social landlord with more than 2,500 homes across Dumfries and Galloway is set to increase rents by up to seven per cent.
A Dumfries and Galloway College student is hoping her success as an electrical engineering apprentice can spark other females to take the same path.
The level of homelessness in Dumfries and Galloway is higher than it was before the pandemic.
Councillors have demanded an urgent upgrade of Dumfries and Galloway Council’s outdated website so that it is more accessible to the public.
The foster carer crisis is continuing in Dumfries and Galloway – despite desperate attempts to improve the situation.
The cost of living crisis is having an impact on optimism and confidence amongst businesses across Dumfries and Galloway.
Public concern over a proposed 75-turbine windfarm’s effect on Moffat’s Golden Eagle numbers and dark sky status have forced a 20 per cent scaling back of the project.
Council officials are confident that a £16.3million affordable housing development in Kirkcudbright won’t overwhelm the town’s infrastructure.
Education chiefs have revealed ambitious plans to transform the schools estate in Dumfries and Galloway.
Emergency funding that helps struggling Dumfries and Galloway residents survive the cost of living crisis will likely be cut in half next year.
The council has swooped on hundreds of seagull nests in a bid to curb the chaos caused by the birds across Dumfries and Galloway this year.
Dumfries and Galloway’s care at home sector lost around 250 staff in just 12 months.
Holidaymakers could soon be given the chance to stay on an island where a murder took place.
More than 100 people attended a rally at the council headquarters as teachers went on strike in Dumfries and Galloway yesterday.