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Out-of-Hours Services Continue to Support Patients Across Lanarkshire This Winter
As winter pressures increase and GP practices close over the festive period, out-of-hours health services across Lanarkshire are continuing to provide urgent care and support to patients when it is most needed. The out-of-hours service is available during evenings,...
Essential maintenance works – Hunter community health centre multi-storey car park
Essential maintenance works will be undertaken at the Hunter Community Health Centre multi-storey car park, East Kilbride from Friday 3 November. Some of this work requires areas of the car park to be closed at times. The car park will be closed on Friday 3, Saturday...
Family Nurse Partnership celebrates a decade of support, strength, and success
In a heart-warming celebration of a decade in service, the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) has marked ten years of dedicated work with families across Lanarkshire. The milestone was commemorated with a delightful teddy bear picnic-themed event held at Hamilton Town...
New family support workers devoted to supporting North Lanarkshire’s new babies
North Lanarkshire now has eight new family support workers dedicated to providing an extra layer of support and advice to mums with a new baby. Working as part of Health Visiting Teams, family support workers engage with new parents and provide guidance to support...
Cast iron assurance for wellbeing of care home residents as consultation begins
The continued commitment of health and care leaders to the wellbeing of care home residents has been reaffirmed - as formal consultation on the future of Dewar House and McClymont House begins. At a special meeting on 18 October, South Lanarkshire's integration joint...
Lanarkshire staff take finalist places across national award categories
Exemplary care, compassion and professionalism in Lanarkshire are to be recognised at a prestigious national awards ceremony. A number of staff have been selected as finalists at the Scottish Health Awards, chosen from hundreds of nominees in a rigorous shortlisting...
NHS Lanarkshire welcomes new employee director
NHS Lanarkshire has extended a warm welcome to its new employee director and chair of staff side, Sylvia Stewart. Sylvia joined NHS Lanarkshire in 2000 as a specialist biomedical scientist and worked in the pathology department at the former Law Hospital as well as...
