The Shotts health visiting team participated in the Healthy Working Lives walking challenge captained by Aimee Dale from health improvement Wishaw/Shotts locality. The aim of the challenge was to improve staff health and wellbeing, with a focus of mental health, over an eight-week period by walking and being outdoors.
Along with Aimee, Karen Martin, Donna Fell, Shona Moir, Debbie Young, Lorna Milligan, Sandra Hughes and Lorraine Murray accumulated enough steps between them to summit Mount Kilimanjaro twice, which is a fantastic achievement.
Aimee said “The walking challenge got the whole team moving. It became quite competitive and encouraged those of us who didn’t sign up for the challenge to become more active too”.
A special mention goes to Karen Martin who created a white board of Mount Kilimanjaro and the animals found in Africa to keep the team motivated. The animals were named Audrey the giraffe; Rod Turner the lion and the Attenborough brother leopards.
Karen has recently taken up a post with the family nurse partnership at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and will be very much missed by the team.
