Developing a Clinical Strategy to meet the needs of the people of the Western Isles

This is an exciting and challenging time for Western Isles Health Board.

"Good healthcare systems don't just happen - they have to be designed and built together to meet the needs of the people we serve. We want to design the very best we can for the people of the Western Isles, within obvious constraints that we face here in the Western Isles. We are striving towards excellence. We are meeting all of our local and national targets that we are required to deliver on - but we need to have a plan for the future, and that is what this process is about."
Mr John Turner Acting Chief Executive, NHS Western Isles.

The process we have now put in place will develop a set of proposals for the future delivery of health services for the people of the Western Isles. These proposals will be developed by the end of July 2008, and formal consultation and a decision on the way forward will have taken place by the end of January 2009.

• Clinical Reference Group Workshop - 22nd April 2008
  The workshop will start at 2.00pm (Tea & coffee available from 1.45pm) and will close at 4.00pm. The Workshop will be held in the Clinical Skills Area at the Western Isles Hospital and video-link will be available to the Library, OUAB (and to Barra if required).
  
• Clinical Reference Group Workshop - 25th March 2008
  
• Launch event 5th February 2008, Town Hall Stornoway