With a heavy heart, Health Promotion recently bade farewell to two of it’s longest serving members of staff recently.  We miss you both and wish you well!

Tina Burgess, Senior Health Promotion Officer
After working with Health Promotion since the 80’s, Tina retired from the department in March as Senior Health Promotion Officer, with remits spanning from maternal and infant nutrition to older people and homelessness.  Although working with Health Promotion for the majority of her career, Tina originally began her nursing training at the old Lewis Hospital, leaving the service after having her children.  Tina returned to Western Isles Health Board in the role of Smoking Officer with Health Promotion, and as the department’s role expanded, so too did Tina’s responsibilities.

Wendy Ingledew, Substance Misuse Coordinator
Retirement also beckoned for Wendy, as she left Health Promotion and the Outer Hebrides Alcohol & Drug Partnership at the beginning of April.  Wendy joined the NHS in 1993 as Chief Officer of the Uist and Barra Health Council. She moved over to join health promotion as Drug and Alcohol Officer in 2000. Since then she has been the lead for the Alcohol Drug Partnership, which has established new substance misuse services to support recovery and initiated many innovative prevention projects.  There are very few people left in the Western Isles who she
hasn’t introduced to the concept of alcohol units and the alternative mocktails. Wendy now looks forward to long lies, holidays abroad, and granny-duties.