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It’s back and this year the popular local buggy walking group ‘Buggy Buddies’ kicks off on Tuesday 15th April.  Led by NHS Western Isles’ Health Visiting Team, Buggy Buddies is aimed at parents and carers of babies and toddlers in buggies, prams, or carriers, and meets...

In Uist and Barra Community Health Walk Leaders were blessed with glorious sunshine for their Strength and Balance for Walk Leaders training, held on 2nd and 3rd April. Laura Mackay, Health Improvement Practitioner and Walk On Hebrides Co-ordinator, travelled to Barra to...

In an innovative role to the Western Isles, Advanced Paramedics are splitting their time between the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) and NHS Western Isles (NHSWI) to treat patients in a variety of settings, including at home, within care homes and...

NHS Western Isles is urging everyone offered a COVID-19 vaccine this spring to come forward, get vaccinated and stay protected – because COVID-19 hasn’t disappeared. Last summer in Scotland, there were more than 10,000 reported cases of COVID-19 and over...

Thanks to the close working partnership between Angela Macleod, NHS Western Isles Neurology Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Angela Macdonald, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Financial Inclusion Officer, local lady Sarah has been fortunate in receiving a 6 month back-dated Benefits Assessment...