NHS HIGHLAND officials met members of Raasay Community Council last Friday looking to improve health care provision on the island and relations between the community and NHS management.
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch MSP Kate Forbes arranged the meeting, saying NHS Highland must ‘understand the challenges facing the island community’ rather than simply imposing solutions from a distance.
Islanders have been without resident out-of-hours nursing provision since July 2015. Efforts to recruit a permanent nurse on the island have been unsuccessful. Chairman of NHS Highland David Alston and Tracy Ligema, deputy director of operations at NHS Highland, had a ‘constructive discussion’ with the community council about how health and social care might be delivered on Raasay as the community feels the present system is not meeting the island’s needs.