Care at Home on careful footing to reintroduce full supports after most challenging period on record
A process has begun to carefully step out of contingency measures that were activated to safeguard vital supports for vulnerable people. The measures were implemented during what has been one of the most challenging months ever for health and care services in South...
Video message from Heather Knox, NHS Lanarkshire chief executive
In this week’s staff message, Heather speaks about the Covid-19 cases, with the acute inpatient numbers coming down, and the success of the booster vaccination programme in Lanarkshire. Heather also welcomes colleagues from the Lanarkshire resilience partnership who...
Approval for the Vision Anywhere system
NHS Lanarkshire’s strategic command group has approved the use of the GP Vision system remote access software, ‘Vision Anywhere’ (VA). This will allow the user to remotely access a single GP practice’s Vision system or multiple practices’ systems, where practices...
NHS Lanarkshire Never Services Briefing – Update
NHS Lanarkshire is moving to protect essential services as pressure on health and social care services hits historic levels. Our services across the whole system are experiencing more pressure that at any other point. Under the circumstances the only way we can...
New district nurses
Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire (HSCNL) has started welcoming its latest intake of district nurses. Laura Henderson was the first to complete her training and be signed off as a district nurse. Supported by her mentor Marie McNulty, as well as practice...
GP practices move to providing the most urgent care
Health and social care services across Lanarkshire are continuing to experience more pressure than at any other point in their history. Due to this sustained pressure, record Covid-19 numbers and ongoing staff sickness absence, NHS Lanarkshire has asked GP practices...
Weekly staff message from Heather Knox
In this week’s staff message, Heather speaks about the Covid-19 cases in Lanarkshire, workforce pressures and the impact on services as well as the work of the local resilience partnership. The video can be accessed on Vimeo and You Tube using the links below: Vimeo –...
“When can I go home?” Partnership hospital programme providing answers to fundamental question
A programme based on providing clear answers to a fundamental patient question has gone live in NHS Lanarkshire’s three acute hospitals. The planned date of discharge (PDD) programme aims to establish a clear date of when someone will go home (or to a community...
NHS Lanarkshire Never Services Briefing
NHS Lanarkshire is moving to protect essential services as pressure on health and social care services hits historic levels. While we are seeing lower levels of serious illness as a result of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, there are a large number of cases as well as...
