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Commitment to collaboration and protecting those most at risk
South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board (IJB) has published its Annual Performance Report for 2024/25, highlighting how collaboration with partners, the workforce and local communities is at the heart of its approach to improving health and wellbeing across South...
Mobile Covid-19 Testing Unit to open in Biggar, South Lanarkshire
A mobile Covid-19 testing unit will be situated in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, from Saturday 27 February. The unit will be located at Biggar Golf Club and will be open Monday to Sunday from 9.30am to 5.30pm. Dr Jackie Hyland, NHS Lanarkshire Consultant in Health...
Community testing begins in South Lanarkshire
Rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing for people is now available for people without symptoms in South Lanarkshire. The community testing initiative, in partnership with the Scottish Government, NHS Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire Council aims to drive down local...
Community Covid care centre marks patient milestone as case numbers start to decline
A little-known NHS service that’s providing Covid care in the community in Lanarkshire has just marked a significant milestone, having seen 10,000 patients in 12 months. The acute respiratory illness centre (ARIC) was set up in response to the pandemic last year as a...
Milestone reached in covid-19 vaccination programme
NHS Lanarkshire has reached and surpassed the milestone of 100,000 local people receiving their first dose of the covid-19 vaccine. Dr Mark Russell, Lead for the covid-19 vaccination programme in Lanarkshire, said: “We reached this significant milestone on Friday and...
Love endures as platinum jubilee care home couple celebrate Valentine’s day
Love is definitely in the air in a South Lanarkshire care home – as one resident couple near their 70th wedding anniversary. Last week, staff at South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership’s David Walker Gardens ran a series of Valentine’s high teas for all...
Non-urgent elective procedures on course to be reintroduced in March
NHS Lanarkshire hopes to reintroduce non-urgent elective procedures at the beginning of March if Covid-19 hospital admissions continue to move in the right direction. The decision was taken last month to temporarily postpone all non-urgent elective procedures and a...
