Michelle launches menopause support group
Neonatal nurse educator Michelle Brooks, age 38, has started a monthly staff menopause support group at University Hospital Wishaw. Her personal experience of premature menopause has motivated this. Michelle explains: “Menopause is a transition that affects 100 per...
New Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire launches new website
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire has launched its new website, which will make it even easier for people across North Lanarkshire to access information about services, supports available, and local health and care jobs. Designed with the user in mind, the...
Big Shout Out: The Podiatry Hub
The Podiatry Hub have received a Big Shout Out to celebrate the new self-referral access centre which has seen a substantial decrease in waiting times for the service. The newly formed team, who are based at Coathill Hospital help manage the access to podiatry...
Pharmacy support to increase quitting smoking success
Lanarkshire Pharmacies are ready and waiting to support people who smoke to quit, through the free and friendly stop smoking service; Quit Your Way. Trained pharmacy staff supported hundreds of Lanarkshire residents to quit smoking in 2022, and anyone who is thinking...
International Day for Epilepsy
Hospitals across Lanarkshire will light up purple on 26 March, to mark the international day for epilepsy. Epilepsy is not just one condition, but a group of many different ‘epilepsies’ with one thing in common: a tendency to have seizures that start in...
Tribute paid to staff on World Social Work Day
World Social Work Day, on March 21, is an annual celebration that aims to highlight the achievements of the profession. Councillor Margaret Walker, Chair of the Social Work Resources Committee, said: “Local social workers play a hugely important part within our public...
Building on the success of Operation FLOW – the view from the North
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire staff have been thanked for their excellent work leading up to, and during, Operation FLOW’s firebreak. The partnership’s staff played a huge role decompressing our whole system and helping reduce ward occupancy levels...
The Big Shout Out: Have you met our colleague Elsie?
The Pre-Assessment Team have received a Big Shout Out to celebrate their innovative approach to ensuring excellent patient care while working to address capacity challenges. Elsie is NHS Lanarkshire’s Pre-Assessment app, a digital tool that means most patients are no...
Well-established collaboration crucial to Lanarkshire’s firebreak
Collaboration and communication strategies that were tempered during the heat of the Covid pandemic have been a fundamental aspect of Lanarkshire’s firebreak. NHS Lanarkshire recently announced a significant reduction in pressure across its three acute hospitals,...
