Return of Quality Week
Quality Week returns on Monday 15 May, giving everyone in NHS Lanarkshire the chance to take part in learning and development sessions and celebrate the improvement work going on throughout the organisation. The new NHS Lanarkshire Quality Strategy 2023-2029 will also...
Co-created digital plan prepares Lanarkshire for next five years
A new strategic plan has been developed for Lanarkshire entitled ‘Empowering people to enhance care for everyone’. The 2023-28 digital plan reflects the wide-ranging needs and potential for digital technology across NHS Lanarkshire, and seeks to make digital topics...
Respected health and social care leaders appointed as Honorary Professors
Two highly-respected leaders in health and social care have been confirmed as Honorary Professors at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU). Soumen Sengupta and Ross McGuffie are the Chief Officers of South Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire Health and Social Care...
MRP Future Friday
The Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) is looking to the future. The MRP team held their first ‘Future Fridays’ event – with 30 young people from local schools attending to find out more about plans for the new hospital. Fiona Cowan, MRP clinical lead for nursing,...
Living Our Best Lives in Lanarkshire
NHS Lanarkshire’s new healthcare strategy launches this month and gives us the chance to shape how we deliver healthcare for future generations in Lanarkshire. Our Health Together – Living Our Best Lives is an opportunity for all our staff to be involved in...
Shortlisted nominees for Staff Awards chosen
The shortlisted nominees for the Staff Awards 2023 have now been chosen. The shortlisting exercise saw a team of non-executive directors, staff side representative and a member of the public partnership forum, working together to develop a final list of nominees to be...
Nursing recruitment event
Third year student nurses at the University of Stirling had the opportunity to meet with a wide range of different potential employers at a recruitment event organised by the University’s Careers Department. The student nurses who will qualify as new registrants in...
Nomination period for the Staff Awards closes
The nomination period for the Staff Awards 2023 has now closed. Heads of service and directors from across the organisation have been busy nominating their teams for the outstanding work that they do to support the people of Lanarkshire every day. The award ceremony...
Special visit was ‘neigh’ bother
Staff at University Hospital Hairmyres organised a very special visit. Physiotherapist, Fiona MacDonald, arranged for two police horses to visit Eleanor Dempster. This is because Eleanor was one of the first female officers appointed to the mounted branch of Glasgow...
