Special focus on care home wellbeing group
Staff wellbeing has been in sharp focus in The Pulse online in recent weeks and months. While community, primary and acute teams have been a key focus of our messaging, local authority, the independent sector and NHS care homes are a vital audience – and part or our...
Don’t miss the chance to give your views on future of planned orthopaedic surgery
We are reminding stakeholders that we are seeking their feedback on proposals for the future provision of elective (planned) orthopaedic surgery. Elective orthopaedics is planned surgery primarily to replace the main bony joints such as hip, knee and shoulders, and...
New resuscitation guidelines podcast – adults
Welcome to an update on the Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021. During the podcast, resuscitation colleagues will highlight the main changes. Basic life support The adult basic life support algorithm shows no major changes. Cardiac arrest recognition remains the...
New resuscitation guidelines podcast – paediatrics
Welcome to an update for the Resuscitation Council UK Guidelines 2021 in relation to paediatrics. During the podcast, resuscitation colleagues will highlight the main changes. Basic life support The paediatric basic life support algorithm identifies no major changes....
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...
