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For all media enquiries contact the NHS Lanarkshire Communications Department by emailing media@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk. Please note this media box is only monitored Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
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Baby Loss Awareness Week activities and events
Baby Loss Awareness Week encourages everyone in the baby loss community, and beyond, to come together to remember and commemorate our much loved and missed babies. This year NHS Lanarkshire's three acute hospital sites will be lit up pink and blue from Thursday 9 to...
Lanarkshire CAMHS set to dramatically slash waiting times for appointments
Lanarkshire’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has introduced a new way of working which allow patients to pick their appointment dates and times. The service is now using the CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) model. Developed by CAMHS...
New Lanarkshire CAMHS logo wins the hearts of voting public
After months of research, creative design and public voting, the new Lanarkshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) logo has been officially chosen. Following an extensive four-month research and design process, the modern heart-shaped logo was chosen...
Tribute to compassionate staff as conversation opens on palliative care
Health and care leaders have paid tribute to the impact that palliative care services are making in communities – and in people’s own homes. An ‘exemplary’ partnership approach has come into sharp focus as a wider conversation is opened with the public on the future...
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire advances in its mission to reduce poverty in local communities
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire is making significant progress in ensuring nobody in North Lanarkshire faces barriers to health and social care services. The health and social care partnership works to the Fairer Scotland Duty which protect those most...
NHS Lanarkshire and Scottish Ambulance Service partner to improve hospital flow
Patients can expect swifter discharges and reduced ambulance waiting times thanks to a partnership between NHS Lanarkshire and the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS). The partnership has enabled hospital ambulance liaison officers (HALOs) to be embedded within the...
Green Health Partnership receives new funds for greener environments
Green Health Week takes place Saturday 13 – Friday 19 May and NHS Lanarkshire is planting the seed to encourage others to give nature a go. Alongside Green Health Week, NHS Lanarkshire’s Green Health Partnership (LGHP) received £250 from Action Earth to enhance the...
