Archive | January, 2016
Symposium a success

Symposium a success

The 2015 Lanarkshire Symposium for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities was held on 6 November in the Strathclyde Hilton. As always, it attracted a wide range of health professionals from all parts of Scotland and some areas of England, and was opened by the Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health Jamie Hepburn MSP. […]

Daniel's close shave raises thousands

Daniel’s close shave raises thousands

Clinical services secretary Collette Hamill is bristling with delight after her brother raised nearly £4000 for charity by shaving off his bushy beard. NHS Lanarkshire staff were among the generous supporters who sponsored Daniel Hamill to have his face fuzz chopped after he’d grown it for two years. Daniel raised around £3750 in aid of […]

Our Jackie wins national support award

Our Jackie wins national support award

Jackie Tudhope, scooped the Support Worker Award at this year’s Scottish Annual Health Awards. Jackie, who is a nursing assistant in the emergency care unit at Wishaw General Hospital, said: “I am absolutely delighted. I got into nursing by being a domestic and the charge nurse said to me, ‘Do you not think you should go […]

Allan earns fellowship

Allan earns fellowship

NHS Lanarkshire biomedical scientist Allan Wilson has received the Royal College of Pathologists’ highest honour. Allan, lead biomedical scientist in the pathology laboratory at Monklands Hospital in Airdrie, has been made an honorary fellow of the college, joining a list of distinguished names that includes Nobel Prize winners. Allan, 56, from Cumbernauld, is only the […]