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Raising awareness around child sexual exploitation
NHS Lanarkshire is supporting the Scottish Government’s national campaign to raise awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). Research shows that while most parents and carers know where their child or young person is when they go out, less know about their child’s behaviour when they are online. Wendy Mitchell, nurse consultant for child and adult […]
New ways of working improves use of space
An initiative to look at new ways of working could see more staff having the option to work from home or chose a location more suited to whatever task they need to undertake that day. That’s the exciting prospect from a space utilisation exercise which is currently underway. Many large organisations – such as NHS […]
Whistle blowing policy update
Whistleblowing: safely raising concerns about risk, malpractice or wrong doing, is an updated policy approved by the Human Resources Forum. This policy, which can be found on FirstPort, aims to reassure staff that it is safe and acceptable to raise concerns and to describe the correct process for staff to follow. Irene Barkby, director of […]
Christine Wilson retires
Staff nurse Christine Wilson, who was based within the day surgery at Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, retired on 31 August following a nursing career which spanned 36 years. In 1979, Christine trained as a pupil nurse and then began working as an enrolled nurse in the surgical department. She thereafter completed her conversion course to […]