Welcome to the NHS Western Isles Community Navigator service website.
Empowering you to live well
- Do you need help to live well, safely and independently in your home?
- Are you feeling lonely or isolated or generally feeling low?
- Do you need support with getting online and tech support?
- Do you have difficulty heating or looking after your home or meeting your bills?
- Do you feel your health could be better if you exercised more or stopped smoking?
If you said ‘yes’ to any of those questions, your local Community Navigator team may be able to help you.
We offer a free service to anyone living in the Western Isles aged 18+ years, particularly those with a long-term condition, to help them live well, safely and independently in their own homes.
Our friendly team are based throughout the Outer Hebrides, with offices in Stornoway, Uist and Barra. See contacts section for further information on your local Community Navigator.
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The Community Navigator service is supported via mPower EU INTERREG VA programme to mid 2022.
The project has partners in West of Scotland and the border regions of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who share similar challenges and have come together to share experiences and good practice. Similar Community Navigator services have been setup in these areas and over the lifetime of the project mPower will support:
- 2,500 people through the development of wellbeing plans
- 4,500 digital health interventions.
The Community Navigators work with a range of stakeholders to get involved in each of their target communities:
- GPs and other primary care professionals (health and social care)
- Third sector and independent organisations with an interest in supporting the health and wellbeing of older people
- Local people in collaboration with project partners and stakeholder organisations
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- LAST REVIEWED ON: January 22, 2021