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Do you have unwanted Community Equipment? Return your old equipment and help someone in need
Published on 10 October 2023
RETURN, RECYCLE, REUSE. Have you borrowed equipment such as a commode, chair raisers, bedrail or bath lift that you no longer need? If so, then please help us to help someone else in your community who does need itby returning these... -
Dr Rigby announced as Health Award finalist for helping to ensure Western Isles patients receive ‘Gold Standard’ care
Published on 10 October 2023
Dr Dave Rigby from the Western Isles has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Scottish Health Awards! Dave, who is Realistic Medicine and Therapeutics Clinical Lead for NHS Western Isles, was selected as a finalist in the Leader of... -
Mary Lou shortlisted for national award!
Published on 9 October 2023
Huge congratulations to NHS Western Isles Paediatric Physiotherapist, Mary Lou Stilwell, who was recently named as one of only six NHS staff in Scotland to have been shortlisted for this year’s Allied Health Professional Scottish Health Award. Whilst Mary Lou didn’t... -
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...