Western Isles Hospital Catering Department meets the highest standard of food safety management  

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...

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...

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...

Positive change to improve patients’ care journeys was implemented the day after a recent event involving a wide range of health and social care staff.   Creating Better Care Journeys was held at the end of August, and was attended by 52 Health and Social Care staff. The purpose...

NHS Western Isles’ Buggy Buddies walking group had its busiest period yet with the highest attendance this year.   Led by NHS Western Isles’ Health Visiting Team and local Action for Children staff, Buggy Buddies is aimed at parents and carers...