What now for Brechin Infirmary? Ministers reject health group’s CAT appeal over former hospital By Graham Brown January 14 2022, 12.16pm Brechin Healthcare Group chairman Grahame Lockhart at the infirmary. Pic: Mhairi Edwards/DCT Media. A bombshell knockback has been given to Brechin campaigners in their six-year journey to turn the town’s former infirmary into a community …
Read MoreChairman’s AGM report – 25 November 2021 At the end of my AGM report last October 2020, I posed the question – Will we get a decision on our Community Asset …
Read MoreDelays are unacceptable’: Angus health campaigners face anxious wait for Infirmary plans By Cara Forrester September 29 2021, 12.09pm Chairman of the Group Grahame is pictured at the site. Brechin campaigners are facing an anxious wait to find out if their plans for a community health and wellbeing hub will finally be given the green …
Read MoreIt is a year since we opened the Jenner Centre. A lot has happened in a year. Thank you to Andrew Edgar for letting us use these amazing premises to bring the Jenner Centre to life. Thank you to all the service providers who have used the Centre to provide invaluable service to the vulnerable …
Read MoreIn July 1864 plans for a hospital were first made public in the borough of Brechin, after the late James Don, Esquire, of Bearehill, bequeathed £1,000 for the purpose of establishing a hospital or infirmary and dispensary in Brechin on condition that a further £1,000 was raised within 18 months by the local …
Read MoreAngus health campaigners say community hub ambitions and the building they hope to take over are crumbling due to Covid-19 delays. The pandemic has put Brechin Healthcare Group’s (BHG) plans for the town’s old infirmary on hold. Frustration is growing that a decision on a community asset transfer (CAT) has now been delayed …
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