Serving the Highlands Since 2016
Vibrant Health Advocates — Highlands Branch supports people across Inverness and the wider Highlands to understand their health rights, navigate NHS services, and live well — whatever the postcode.
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Living in the Highlands is a privilege — and a challenge. Distances are long, specialist services are centralised, and too many people quietly go without the support they're entitled to.
Since establishing our Highlands branch as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation, Vibrant Health Advocates has worked alongside individuals, families, carers, and communities across the region to bridge the gap between the health system and the people it's meant to serve. We offer plain-speaking health advocacy, peer-led wellbeing groups, and targeted outreach into some of the most remote corners of Scotland — because good health shouldn't depend on how far you live from Raigmore Hospital.
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What We Do
Our trained advocates sit alongside people at appointments, help them understand diagnoses, and make sure their voices are heard within NHS Highland. We remove the jargon and the intimidation so that decisions are genuinely shared.
Find out moreAcross Inverness, Nairn, Dingwall, and Lochaber, our peer-led groups bring people managing long-term conditions together in a low-key, welcoming setting. Connection is itself a health intervention — and our groups prove it week after week.
Find out moreWe take our work into communities that services too often overlook — from scattered crofting townships to remote coastal villages. Monthly outreach visits, phone-based support, and partnerships with rural GP practices mean no one is out of reach.
Find out moreOur Impact
Year after year, the numbers reflect what the communities we serve already know: this work changes lives.
On the Ground
On any given week, our team might be sitting with a woman in Ullapool helping her understand what her consultant's letter means, facilitating a peer group in Inverness for people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, or driving to a village hall in Rogart for a drop-in.
The work is specific, relational, and unglamorous in the best possible way. We do not run campaigns — we sit with people in the difficult, confusing moments that health systems produce and help them find their footing.
See all our programmesFrom the Community
The best way to understand our work is through the people it touches. Read about the walks that combat isolation, the health checks that save lives, and the Inverness grandmother who found herself again.
Whether you need support for yourself or someone you care for, want to volunteer or donate, or simply want to find out more about what we do — we would love to hear from you.
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