Archive | November, 2015
NHS Staff Benefits Roadshows

NHS Staff Benefits Roadshows

NHS Staff Benefits are visiting a selection of locations within NHS Lanarkshire during November as part of Healthy Working Lives to let you know about all the financial services which are available to staff as well as the range of discounts which NHS Staff can access with local and national businesses. If you have any […]

Liz and Lee check standards of postgrad training

Liz and Lee check standards of postgrad training

Two of our staff have been appointed to new roles by the organisation that spearheads education and training in the NHS in Scotland. Liz Kilgour, microbiology services technical manager, and biomedical scientist Lee McMullen are now tasked with assessing postgraduate training in their specialties on behalf of NHS Education for Scotland (NES). Liz has become […]

Taking the lead in quality improvement

Taking the lead in quality improvement

Four staff have shown their “ScIL” by successfully completing a quality improvement course. The Scottish Improvement Leader (ScIL) programme is a lead-level quality improvement (QI) programme developed by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) in partnership with the Scottish Government. ScIL aims to develop people to lead large-scale improvement projects within their organisation as well as […]

Scotland’s newest radiotherapy centre opens this month

Scotland’s newest radiotherapy centre opens this month

The Lanarkshire Beatson, Scotland’s newest radiotherapy centre, will open to patients on 30 November. Ahead of the opening, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing visited the centre at Monklands Hospital, Airdrie. Speaking about the new facility Shona Robison said: “Demand for radiotherapy treatment is set to increase significantly over the next ten years as […]