New legislation providing smoke-free perimeter outside NHS hospital buildings
On Monday 5 September, the Scottish Government is introducing The Prohibition of Smoking Outside Hospital Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2022, which bans smoking within a 15-metre perimeter of NHS Lanarkshire hospital buildings. NHS Lanarkshire has an existing No...
Chief Executive staff message
Before speaking about the number of Covid-19 cases, Heather begins with an update from the recent workforce summit. Heather also highlights the recent visit by Humza Yousaf MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, to University Hospital Monklands. The video...
Autumn vaccination programme gets underway across Lanarkshire
The autumn flu and Covid vaccination programme will get started on Monday for residents across Lanarkshire who are eligible for the flu vaccination or the flu and Covid autumn booster. The flu vaccination and autumn Covid booster are being offered to eligible groups...
New app development and governance policy
Many staff will be designing apps for themselves or for patients to use. This new policy outlines the steps and processes you need to follow to ensure your app meets the minimum standards of design and governance for any NHS Lanarkshire app, new or already launched....
Welcome to 80 new doctors
80 new junior doctors have joined the 12,000 strong workforce as part of their foundation programme. Dr Jane Burns, Medical Director, said: “I extend the warmest welcome to NHS Lanarkshire’s new junior doctors joining us as part of their foundation programme. It is...
Chief Executive staff message
In this week’s video, Heather speaks about the latest number of Covid-19 cases in hospital, care homes and in the community. Heather also speaks about the autumn staff vaccination programme and the NHS Lanarkshire sustainability policy: Health and social care staff...
Lanarkshire CAMHS waiting list patients to be offered first appointment
All young people waiting for a first assessment with a clinician from our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) will be offered a first appointment in the coming weeks. Where possible, appointments will take place the week after they are scheduled via...
Parents encouraged to get children vaccinated against flu ahead of winter
NHS Lanarkshire is encouraging parents and carers to help keep children healthy over the school terms this winter by getting them vaccinated against flu. Tobias Tipper, Vaccination Programme General Manager at NHS Lanarkshire said: “Getting the nasal spray flu vaccine...
Chief Executive staff message
In this week’s video, Heather speaks about the latest number of Covid-19 cases in hospital and in the community. There are no patients in intensive care at present and it hoped that this will help improve hospital flow. However, NHS Lanarkshire remains at the highest...
