Delivering safe, effective, quality care to patients is at the heart of our business in healthcare. To address this there is a professional desire to develop and implement a Care Assurance and Accreditation System (CAAS). Speaking at a Hairmyres CAAS event, Anne Leitch, senior nurse for medicine, said: “CAAS it is intended to ensure nursing […]

Children are getting in the swim to protect them from second-hand smoke. Swim time with Jenny’s Bear is an initiative between NHS Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire Leisure (NLL) which involves parents helping their children to learn to swim and gives tips on how to make homes and cars smoke free. Lynn Adams, health improvement senior […]

Help is at hand with Knowledge Services – a specialist team who can provide you with the best evidence to support your work and training, and help you search key databases and resources with confidence. Knowledge Services can also give you 24/7 access to hospital library facilities, including computer rooms and a huge collection of […]

Visitors were given a flavour of the Monklands Hospital inpatient menu at a special tasting session this week. Catering manager Tracey Eyre said: “It was excellent and was well attended by both staff and visitors. “We had great feedback with around 25 questionnaires completed. “Both staff and visitors really enjoyed the fare, with the mac […]

NHS Lanarkshire is improving patient safety and quality of care in a two phased restructuring of its trauma and orthopaedics service. The improvements are being made following feedback from Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), the Scottish Government Peer Review process Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), the General Medical Council (GMC) and NHS Education for Scotland […]