North and South Lanarkshire health and social care partnerships have made appointments to three of their key medical leadership positions.
Dr Lucy Munro continues as medical director of Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire. She welcomes Dr Adam Daly as the partnership’s new interim associate medical director. Currently the associate medical director for mental health and learning disabilities, Dr Daly will take up his new position on 4 January 2023.
Work is now underway to recruit a new associate medical director for mental health and learning disabilities.
Dr Mark Russell has been appointed the new medical director of South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership. Currently the North Lanarkshire Partnership’s associate medical director, Dr Russell will take up his new position on 28 November.
Dr Russell will continue to provide senior medical management cover for specialist children’s services and sexual health until Dr Daly takes up his new role to ensure a smooth and safe transition.
Also joining South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership is Dr Veronica Rainey, who has been appointed as the new associate medical director. A GP in Coatbridge, Dr Rainey will start in her new role on 4 January 2023.
Dr Munro welcomed her within their new roles, commenting: “We know the challenges we are facing over the winter month, and the four of us are in an excellent position to work closely and effectively as a team to tackle these pressures head on.
“Each of our roles has significant responsibilities and we are committed to working together to ensure both partnerships are well placed to support our excellent, hardworking staff and ensure we meet the needs, and expectations, of the people of Lanarkshire.”
Medical and associate medical director biographies
Dr Lucy Munro
Medical Director – Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire
Dr Lucy Munro was appointed medical director of Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire in September 2020. She is an experienced clinician of 30 years standing with more than two decades experience in medical leadership and management roles. These have ranged from extensive early career patient pathway and improvement work across NHS Forth Valley, to leadership roles within Scottish Government Primary Care Division, RCGP Scotland and NHS National Services.
In her current role, she is professional lead for all of the North Lanarkshire partnership’s doctors and psychologists. She provides senior medical leadership advice regarding hosted services to NHS Lanarkshire and the partnership’s senior team. She co-chairs the local negotiating committee and GMS oversight group with the South Lanarkshire Partnership’s medical director.
Dr Munro has strategic responsibility for long-term conditions, chairs the partnership medicines management board, the child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) recovery and renewal board and the North’s health and social care safety group. Alongside the partnership’s head of adult social work, the head of allied health professionals and the nursing director, she is responsible for support care and clinical governance. Her values and focus are on collaborative working for safe, timely, high quality care.
Dr Munro continues to deliver face-to-face clinical work in a Lanarkshire GP practice and peer review of consultation skills with NHS Education Scotland.
Dr Adam Daly
Interim Associate Medical Director – Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire
Starting: 4 January 2023
Dr Adam Daly has been appointed interim associate medical director of Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire. He has been working in medical management for the past nine years, having come to Lanarkshire prior to that as a consultant in old age psychiatry in 2010.
He has been working clinically for 20 years in the west of Scotland and has recently been awarded Fellowships of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Faculty of Medical Leaders and Managers. He continues to work as a consultant psychiatrist in the Hamilton locality.
As the associate medical director for mental health and learning disabilities, Dr Daly leads a team of psychiatrists, both in the community and inpatient areas, and is the lead for delivery of the Lanarkshire mental health and wellbeing strategy.
He has interests in clinical governance and adverse event management and has led a number of quality improvement initiates that have resulted in accreditation with the Serious Incident Review Accreditation Network.
Nationally, Dr Daly is the chair of the SIGN dementia guideline development group and is meetings secretary with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, having previously been chair of the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry.
Dr Mark Russell
Medical Director – South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership
Starting: 28 November 2022
Dr Russell has been appointed as the new medical director for South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership. He graduated from Glasgow University in 2004 and qualified as a GP in 2009. He has worked exclusively in Lanarkshire; in GP practices in Motherwell and Airdrie for ten years and then as associate medical director for Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire.
He has also previously worked in NHS Education for Scotland as a research and development fellow and has an ongoing interest in health inequalities and education and training sparked by this post.
Dr Russell was key in the creation and delivery of the Covid-19 vaccination programme – the largest vaccination programme ever undertaken in Lanarkshire – during the pandemic and continues to provide clinical input.
Dr Veronica Rainey
Associate Medical Director – South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership
Starting: 4 January 2023
Dr Veronica Rainey has been appointed as the new associate medical director for South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership.
She graduated from Glasgow University in 1998 and has been a GP for more than 20 years. Dr Rainey is currently a GP in Coatbridge and also holds roles as a GP appraiser with NHS Lanarkshire and as the associate advisor in quality improvement and patient safety for NHS Education for Scotland.
Dr Rainey’s other professional interests lie in addressing health inequalities, patient safety and quality improvement.
