'Unprecedented' £100m budget cuts loom at NHS Highland
The health board will be forced to slash around £50m from its budget over the next year alone.
NHS Highland faces "unprecedented" budget cuts totalling £100m over the next three years.
The health board will be forced to slash around £50m from its budget in the next financial year alone.
A further £50m of savings will have to be found between 2018/19 and 2019/20.
NHS Highland director of finance Nick Kenton described the scale of the cuts as "daunting".
In a report to the board, he said: "Across the course of the next three financial years - 2017 to 2020 - the savings requirement is likely to be in the region of £100m.
"This is an unprecedented scale of savings requirement and it is clear that a 'more of the same' approach is not going to deliver a balanced plan and therefore the model of care needs to be changed.
"There needs to be a mindset that focuses on delivering maximum value within our total £800m resources rather than focusing on savings at the margin."