NHS Western Isles NHS has 3 Hospitals.
Western Isles Hospital, a Rural General Hospital, is located in Stornoway. It was opened in 1992 with a range of hospital acute specialities, psychiatry and care of the elderly. Consultants (17) – Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Anaesthetics, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry, Radiology. Some consultant led services are provided in the Western Isles hospital by consultants based in mainland hospitals. The hospital also includes diagnostic facilities, day hospital, laboratory and Allied Health Professionals and other service.
Delivering for Remote and Rural Healthcare (SG, 20085) provides models for staffing, education, transport and emergency care for remote and rural areas as well as designating the Western Isles Hospital (WIH) as one of 6 Rural General Hospitals (RGH) in Scotland. Each RGH will offer, as a minimum, the core services of medicine, general surgery and anaesthetics. The provision of other services over and above those minimum core services are dependent on local circumstances and health needs of the population.
The Uist & Barra Hospital, a Community Hospital run by general practitioners, is located in Benbecula; it was opened in 2001. It provides a local service for the population of the Southern Isles (North and South Uist, Benbecula, Barra, Berneray, Grimsay, Eriskay, Vatersay and Baleshare. The Hospital has 29 beds, and provides care of the elderly, respite care, GP acute care and midwifery led maternity services. Many of the Consultants from the Western Isles Hospital, and some from mainland Health Boards, visit the Uist & Barra Hospital to provide outpatient services.
with 5 acute beds, is located in Castlebay on the Isle of Barra and is in a shared building with the Local Authority Residential facility. It is supported by the local GP Practice to provide care of the elderly and other services.
NHS Western Isles has external agreements with other Health Boards, primarily Highland Health Board and Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, for the provision of care to Western Isles residents. This includes services such as Ear Nose & Throat (ENT) Surgery, Dermatology, Respiratory Medicine, Child Psychiatry, Rheumatology, specialised Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, Oral Surgery, Neurology, Oncology and Urology. Referral pathways for other spcialities are with other NHS Scotland Health Boards - for example Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Assisted conception with NHS Tyside and Stroke Thrombolysis with NHS Grampian.
NHS Western Isles works closely with a range of other statutory bodies (e.g. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (CNES), NHS 24, the Scottish Ambulance Service) and voluntary sector services to ensure the best possible health care service for the Western Isles population.
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