New Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire launches new website
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire has launched its new website, which will make it even easier for people across North Lanarkshire to access information about services, supports available, and local health and care jobs. Designed with the user in mind, the...
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire’s Strategic Commissioning Plan for the Next Three Years Approved
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire’s bold new Strategic Commissioning Plan for the next three years has been approved by the North Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board. The plan sets out ambitious key local priorities for health and social care services to...
Pharmacy support to increase quitting smoking success
Lanarkshire Pharmacies are ready and waiting to support people who smoke to quit, through the free and friendly stop smoking service; Quit Your Way. Trained pharmacy staff supported hundreds of Lanarkshire residents to quit smoking in 2022, and anyone who is thinking...
Lanarkshire Care Academy strengthens bonds of today – to secure workforce of tomorrow
North Lanarkshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council and NHS Lanarkshire have formally consolidated links to create a Lanarkshire-wide Care Academy. The Academy will build on work already underway in North Lanarkshire, with a dual focus on further supporting the...
Health issue? Think Pharmacy First
People with minor ailments or injuries are being encourage to visit the pharmacy first. Pharmacist Hayley McGuire, a community pharmacist in Airdrie, said: “If you have a minor illness, your local pharmacy is the first place you should go for advice. You don’t even...
Lanarkshire Neonatal Team Best in the UK
The Neonatal Multidisciplinary Team at University Hospital Wishaw been named UK neonatal team of 2023. The team received the award from The Neonatal Nurses Association after being up against stiff opposition across the UK but are delighted to have been named overall...
Fraser ‘Nose’ The Irreparable Damage Cocaine Use Can Do
Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) doctors in Lanarkshire, Scotland have issued a major health warning to the people of Scotland who use cocaine on the damage it can cause to the nose when snorted. ENT doctors, specialising in noses at University Hospital Monklands (UHM) have...
Success in Reducing Hospital Pressures
NHS Lanarkshire has dramatically reduced pressure across its three acute hospitals improving patient care and experience following a successful nine-day “firebreak”. The firebreak, part of Lanarkshire’s positive and ambitious Operation FLOW plan, has resulted in a...
Take control of your health and ‘Quit Your Way’ on No Smoking Day
National No Smoking Day (Wednesday 8 March) is often a time when people who smoke decide to make a dedicated decision to give up and stub it out for good. NHS Lanarkshire is raising awareness of the event by encouraging residents who smoke to contact its free Quit...
