Forty years outstanding achievement
After joining NHS Lanarkshire in April 1981, Carol Rattray, project co-ordinator for the condom distribution schemes, celebrated a remarkable 40 years’ service on 13 April. Carol has worked across various settings and health centres but has spent the latter part of...
Retirement of Alice Jackson
Alice Jackson is set to retire this month from her position as clinic clerical officer in sexual health. Alice started working in family planning in 1978 at Blantyre Health Centre as a volunteer. This is where Alice volunteered for an astonishing 17 years. When a job...
Superhuman care at home service praised
The ‘superhuman’ efforts of care at home staff in South Lanarkshire during the Covid-19 emergency response has been brought into sharp focus. Details have recently emerged on how care at home workers formed the vanguard of a huge partnership effort to keep the most...
Care home vaccine programme gets the Royal seal of approval
Lanarkshire’s care home vaccination programme, which is being led by the partnership, has been praised by Prince William. The Duke of Cambridge recently telephoned Trudi Marshall, our nurse director, to learn more about the programme and hear about the massive sense...
Tom receives a ‘quality’ goodbye
Colleagues paid a fond, virtual, farewell to operations manager Tom Gibb, who retired in March after a remarkable 39 years’ service. Tom, who was based at Salus occupational health, Beckford Street, Hamilton, began his career in the operating theatres at the former...
Family’s donation and thanks to Kilsyth Victoria Memorial Cottage Hospital
Nurses at Kilsyth Victoria Memorial Cottage Hospital thanked a caring young man for donating time and money to patients. Generous Humzah Razzaq (18), from Cumbernauld, raised £1000 for the hospital where he volunteered. Marie McGinty, senior charge nurse, said:...
Retirement of Andy Fleming
Andy Fleming will retire in April after 37 years’ service as an autism practitioner. Andy, who was based at Kirklands Headquarters, has held many roles over the years with the learning disability services as well as within wider services. In 2006, Andy took on the...
Working in partnership with NHS Grampian to provide best care to ICU patient
Intensive care unit (ICU) colleagues in NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Grampian teamed up to provide life-saving treatment to a coronavirus patient. Brian McBride was being cared for in the ICU at University Hospital Monklands when clinicians decided that ventilation was not...
Staff join forces to encourage Lanarkshire to stick with it
Marking one year since Covid-19 lockdown restrictions began, frontline staff have joined forces as part of a social media campaign to encourage their colleagues, and wider Lanarkshire population, to stick with it. The short videos, which were released during March,...
