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Lanarkshire Team Wins Patient Safety Award
NHS Lanarkshire has scooped a major national award at the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Patient Safety Awards 2025. The team took home the award for Maternity and Midwifery Services Initiative of the Year with its project ‘From Conception to Birth – A QI Journey...
Council and partnership colleagues supporting acute hospitals
NHS Lanarkshire is delighted to have the support of colleagues from North and South Lanarkshire councils to help staff across the three acute hospitals during these challenging times. As pressures across the acute sites continues as a result of winter pressures,...
GP practices across Lanarkshire remain open but are moving to delivering care in a different way
Health and social care services across Lanarkshire are continuing to experience more pressure than at any other point in their history. Due to this sustained pressure, record covid-19 numbers and ongoing staff sickness absence, NHS Lanarkshire has asked GP practices...
Self-care advice issued for thousands of Lanarkshire people self-isolating
With Covid cases and hospitalisations rising fast in Lanarkshire over the past week, NHS Lanarkshire today issued self-care advice for people sick at home with Covid or one of the other common winter illnesses. Speaking about the advice issued today, Dr Linda Findlay,...
Changes to hospital visiting arrangements
NHS Lanarkshire is making further changes to visiting arrangements across hospitals to ensure patient safety as cases of Omicron continue to rise in the community, including an increase in cases in the over 60s. We have made the decision to return to one visitor at a...
Neonatal collaboration ensures preterm babies get care they need
Collaborative work across health boards ensures preterm babies get the neonatal care they need. Given the current significant capacity issues, availability of intensive care cots and overall pressure on the system, neonatal units throughout the country are working...
Public urged to play their part following cases of Omicron in Lanarkshire
NHS Lanarkshire is urging the public to play their part in reducing the spread of Covid-19, following cases of the new Omicron variant being identified in Lanarkshire. Dr Femi Oshin, NHS Lanarkshire Covid-19 public health tactical lead, said: "With the emergence of...
