Archive | May, 2016
Over 100,000 volunteers sign up to SHARE

Over 100,000 volunteers sign up to SHARE

Over 100,000 volunteers across Scotland have signed up to help shape the medicines of the future. To increase the number of volunteers further, NHS Lanarkshire held a series of events to encourage people to sign up to SHARE – the Scottish Health Research Register. Rebecca Hamill (16) signed up at Wishaw General Hospital. Rebecca said: […]

Prize for Cathy and lifestyle nurses

Prize for Cathy and lifestyle nurses

Congratulations to Cathy Courtney, lead nurse for sexual health, for an award-winning presentation. Cathy won first prize at the annual scientific meeting of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in Leeds, for her paper on an innovative service provided by sexual health lifestyle nurses in Lanarkshire. The nurses – Maria Dickson, Karen Murray and Karen […]

Awareness campaigns and acknowledging efforts

Awareness campaigns and acknowledging efforts

The week saw the launch of ‘See it, Say it, Do it’. The campaign asks those who use NHS Lanarkshire facilities to raise anything that they feel needs awareness. This could be anything from praising a member of staff to raising a concern about something they feel should be improved. Chief executive Calum Campbell appears […]

East Kilbride Twins and Triplets Club

East Kilbride Twins and Triplets Club

East Kilbride Twins and Triplets Club (EKTTC)  meet every Friday between 12 and 2pm at Mossneuk Primary Community Wing in East Kilbride. They encourage multiple families along from before birth and up to and including preschool and warmly welcome siblings, dads and grandparents. Outwith their Friday club they hold popular monthly Saturday Club which enables […]

Leading better care

University of the West of Scotland (UWS) celebrated the successful delivery of the Leading Better Care (LBC) project within NHS Lanarkshire. Rather than prescriptive leadership, this creative collaboration between UWS and NHS Lanarkshire, which was established in 2012, enabled a whole system approach to support senior charge nurses, midwives and team leaders to fulfil their […]