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Lanarkshire residents encouraged to attend medication reviews
NHS Lanarkshire’s Primary Care Pharmacy Team is encouraging local people to make the most of their medicines and attend medication reviews (also called polypharmacy reviews), when invited. All GP practices in Lanarkshire now have access to pharmacists, pharmacy...
Spring Booster Programme Gets Underway
Residents in care homes for older adults will be the first to receive their spring Covid-19 booster as the spring booster programme gets underway. The spring booster dose will be offered to those aged 75 and over, and individuals aged five and over with a weakened...
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...
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire’s Strategic Commissioning Plan for the Next Three Years Approved
Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire’s bold new Strategic Commissioning Plan for the next three years has been approved by the North Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board. The plan sets out ambitious key local priorities for health and social care services to...
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...
Lanarkshire Care Academy strengthens bonds of today – to secure workforce of tomorrow
North Lanarkshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council and NHS Lanarkshire have formally consolidated links to create a Lanarkshire-wide Care Academy. The Academy will build on work already underway in North Lanarkshire, with a dual focus on further supporting the...
Health issue? Think Pharmacy First
People with minor ailments or injuries are being encourage to visit the pharmacy first. Pharmacist Hayley McGuire, a community pharmacist in Airdrie, said: “If you have a minor illness, your local pharmacy is the first place you should go for advice. You don’t even...
