New model to improve discharge rolled out
University Hospital Wishaw has launched the new Optimal Discharge Planning Target Operating Model (TOM), which aims to streamline the patient discharge process and improve overall patient experience. The hospital-wide rollout follows months of planning and stakeholder...
Making it easy to track down hospital medical equipment
Colleagues on our acute sites will be familiar with regular all-staff emails asking where misplaced pieces of equipment can be found. Those messages should soon be a thing of the past thanks to new digital tracking technology, just launched in the applications section...
Big thumbs-up for innovative hand surgery
Novel surgery to spare a woman agonising hand pain is the latest illustration of the innovation central to our programme of Transformation and Reform. The operation on patient Helen Young’s arthritic thumb was carried out at University Hospital Wishaw by Miss...
New Monklands – Snapshot Report August 2024
Catch up on the latest developments in some of the workstreams for the Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) – our exciting vision for a replacement University Hospital Monklands at Wester Moffat, Airdrie. Our monthly Snapshot Report is now published on the New...
Celebrating all things climate change
September has become a time in Scotland to celebrate all things climate change and, despite not got getting too much sunshine this year, there is still lots to celebrate in terms of environmental sustainability within NHS Lanarkshire. Every year since 2016,...
North Lanarkshire residents set to have increased engagement in health and social care services
A new Engagement and Participation strategy encouraging greater public involvement, engagement and participation in University Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire’s services has now been launched. Launched at the Forgewood Community Centre, the new strategy...
1950s Railroad romance endures like steel – galvanised by Partnership’s Home Carers
Norman and Christine Edge wed in the Royal Oak Hotel, Lanark, in 1962. A love story that has burned for over six decades continues to shine brightly – fanned by the compassion of dedicated home carers. Sparks began to fly when Norman and Christine Edge met at...
New Monklands – site comes alive with preparatory works
Read the latest media release about the Monklands Replacement Project, our exciting vision for the new University Hospital Monklands. Site of new hospital comes alive as preparatory work carried out
Partnership invite views to help shape health and social care vision for tomorrow
People across South Lanarkshire are being invited to contribute their views to inform the development of a key plan for the ongoing development of local health and social care services. The South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board (IJB) has begun to consult on the...
