NHS Lanarkshire is pleased to announce the appointments of new site directors at the university hospitals at Monklands and Wishaw.
Margaret Meek has been successfully appointed to the post of site director at University Hospital Monklands and Stephen Peebles has taken up the position of site director at University Hospital Wishaw.
Margaret was previously deputy director of hospital services at University Hospital Hairmyres and has been interim site director at Monklands since June 2019.
Stephen has also been interim site director at Wishaw since June 2019 and was previously deputy director of hospital services at the same hospital.
Welcoming the new site directors to their roles, NHS Lanarkshire director of acute services and acting chief executive Heather Knox said:
“I am delighted to announce these new appointments. Margaret and Stephen both bring a wealth of experience and knowledge and will be a great asset to their respective hospitals and NHS Lanarkshire.”
Margaret said: “I am really pleased to be appointed Monklands site director and look forward to the challenge of working with the hardworking and talented staff to deliver the best possible patient care.”
Stephen added: “I am delighted to take up this post and look forward to working with the acute team here at Wishaw to serve the current and future healthcare needs of the people of Lanarkshire.”
Stephen and Margaret took up their new roles in December 2019.
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Margaret Meek bio:
Margaret joined the NHS general management training scheme in 1993 after graduating from Dundee University. She worked at NHS Grampian and NHS Lothian before coming to NHS Lanarkshire in 1995 initially at Law Hospital where she was involved in the planning and commissioning of Wishaw General. She has worked in a variety of service management posts in general medicine and older people’s services before being appointed to the deputy director post at University Hospital Hairmyres in 2017. She became interim director of hospital services at University Hospital Monklands in June 2019 before being appointed permanently in December.
Stephen Peebles bio:
Stephen graduated from Strathclyde University in 1998 and worked as a prosthetist/orthotist in Dublin and then in the south east of England, eventually managing the prosthetic/orthotic department in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He moved into operational management within the NHS in 2010, working in the department of neurosciences in Addenbrooke’s Hospital before moving back to Scotland in 2016 as the service manager for trauma and orthopaedics in NHS Lanarkshire. He took up post as the deputy director of hospital services at University Hospital Wishaw in 2017 and became interim director of hospital services in June 2019 before being appointed permanently in December.
