A HOSPITAL radio has received a GBP12,000 lottery boost to upgrade their studios. Crosshouse Hospital's radio service won the grant from NHS Ayrshire & Arran's staff lottery. The money has allowed the charity, Hospital Broadcasting Service Ayrshire, to refurbish two on-air studios.

By DAMIEN HENDERSON ANDY Kerr, the Health Minister, warned yesterday the NHS "cannot stand still" as he pressed ahead with a contentious GBP50m plan to centralise hospital services in the south-west of the country.

A BOOK and exhibition will celebrate 60 years of a hospital's maternity services. Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine, will be replaced next year by the new Ayrshire Maternity Unit at Crosshouse Hospital.

HEALTH chiefs want to scrap accident and emergency services at a busy hospital as part of a major shake-up. Ayr Hospital faces the threat of having its A&E department shut down and replaced by a network of community casualty units.

THE stage was set last night for the next NHS battleground after a health board proposed axing an accident and emergency unit in a radical restructuring of its services.