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Western Isles Health and social care services will become ‘unsustainable’ if demographic trends continue
Published on 9 October 2023
Depopulation is the single biggest risk facing treatment and care services in the Western Isles.This was the forecast in a paper on demographics presented to a recent meeting of Western Isles Health Board.Using updated population predictions, the islands are expecting... -
Anna shortlisted for Nursing Times award!
Published on 9 October 2023
NHS Western Isles is delighted to announce that Anna Morrison, Practice Educator (Nursing and Midwifery), has been shortlisted as Practice Educator of the year at the 2023 Nursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards. The Nursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards comprise of 17... -
NHS Western Isles celebrates the Fas Fallain Project on Challenge Poverty Week
Published on 6 October 2023
NHS Western Isles’ Fas Fallain project is highlighting one of its successful community projects as part of this year’s Challenge Poverty Week (October 2 – 8). The Fas Fallain healthy living project focuses on all issues relating to food and... -
Western Isles Hospital Catering Department meets the highest standard of food safety management
Published on 6 October 2023
NHS Western Isles is delighted with the news that the Catering Department at the Western Isles Hospital has been awarded the Eat Safe Award by the local Environmental Health Service department. The Eat Safe Award is awarded to premises where food... -
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Published on 6 October 2023
A personal experience of breast cancer, by a Western Isles mother of 3 October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and NHS Western Isles has been raising awareness of the signs and symptoms of the disease and why it is vital that people... -
NHS grant transforms provision for Macaulay College students
Published on 5 October 2023
A £20,000 grant from NHS Western Isles to Macaulay College in Lewis has ‘transformed and greatly enhanced’ the provision available to the 25 students supported by the service. Macaulay College is a Not-For Profit Social Enterprise based outside Stornoway. The enterprise...