It was a week of virtually wall-to-wall positive media coverage for NHS Lanarkshire. The Lanarkshire Breastfeeding Initiative lead the way with several papers reporting on their annual general meeting which showcased their work to promote, protect and celebrate support for breastfeeding. Ian Cowan – a member of the committee of Community Pharmacy Lanarkshire – picked […]

An enthusiastic group of staff gathered for a development session about the U.Lab leadership course. Described as a “highly experiential course”, the U.Lab approach to leadership outlines how to achieve transformational change through development of “a new consciousness and a new collective leadership capacity to meet challenges in a more conscious, intentional and strategic way”. […]

The new critical care unit (CCU) at Monklands Hospital opened to patients today. Dr Jim Ruddy, consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia, said: “For many months we’ve seen signs of the new unit and today we should all be proud as we have come to pen this new state-of-the-art unit. “This is the first […]