[2] The hospital formerly had a consultant-led maternity unit, but stringent application of clinical risk assessment criteria meant that in 2012 and 2013 around 30% of pregnant women in the Caithness area needed to travel to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness to give birth.

[4] In November 2016 the NHS Highland board approved the introduction of a community midwifery unit.

[6] Its services include: 24-hour Accident & Emergency department, assessment and rehabilitation, general medicine, general surgery, community midwifery unit and palliative care.

[8] A meeting between the health board and community leaders to discuss staff shortages was then scheduled for 6 January 2015.

[10] As of 2015[update], there are an estimated 136 births a year at the hospital; it has full accreditation as baby friendly, since November 2009.