


iMatter staff experience questionnaire returns
During 2020, the iMatter staff experience questionnaire was paused and, instead, staff were asked to participate in the Everyone Matters Pulse Survey which took place over three weeks in September 2020. The corporate management team (CMT) used the results of the Pulse...
Video message from Heather Knox – Friday 13 August 2021
In this video, Heather updates staff on the new violence and aggression campaign, the importance of wellbeing, Covid-19 testing and iMatter. The video can be viewed on:...
Alison ‘warmly’ welcomes donations to her winter jacket campaign
Alison Harley, response, resilience and preparedness officer, Kirklands Headquarters, would like to express her deepest gratitude to those who have kindly donated to her ‘Just Jackets’ winter 2021 campaign. To date, over 200 jackets and coats have been collected by...
Retirement of Elaine MacKinnon, sexual health nurse adviser
Congratulations go to sexual health nurse adviser Elaine MacKinnon who retired in August after 38 years’ service. Elaine, who worked with the sexual health service at Coathill Hospital, began her career as a midwife, working between William Smillie and Bellshill...
Claire receives national recognition
Congratulations go to Claire Gallagher who featured in an edition of the Daily Record on Wednesday 28 July. Claire, a mental health support worker with the community mental health team at Airbles Road, Motherwell, was contacted by the national newspaper as part of...
Learn more about COP26, an international climate change conference
There are fewer than 50 days to go until The UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, comes to Scotland! The conference is planned as the latest of a series of international climate change conferences which are addressing the issue of global warming caused by increasing...
Q&A with new director of health and social care for South Lanarkshire
Soumen Sengupta, director of health and social care for South Lanarkshire has now taken up post. In this quick-read Q&A, Soumen provides an at-a-glance profile of where he has come from and what drives him. Q: Welcome aboard Soumen. Tell us a bit about yourself...
Occupational therapists focus on staff wellbeing
While the importance of mental wellbeing in staff has been long recognised, the Covid pandemic has thrown this further into the spotlight. The occupational therapy acute wellbeing champions, supported by primary care occupational therapy, have developed a number of...