A new method to improve detection of bowel cancer and avoid unnecessary medical checks has been introduced across Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is bringing in the innovative testing kit – quantitative FIT (qFIT) – following a successful pilot in a small number of GP practices. The test is designed specifically for people who have possible symptoms of […]

Public, a patient and carer representatives involved in developing the interim (phase one) trauma and orthopaedics (T&O) service changes received an update on the plans at a special stakeholder event. Members of North and South Lanarkshire Public Partnership Forums, South Lanarkshire Carers Network, Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire, Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire, the North Lanarkshire Disability […]

NHS Lanarkshire is planning to create a centre of excellence for cancer services at Monklands Hospital to deliver high-quality diagnosis, treatment and care for patients. There are already existing centres of excellence at Monklands for radiotherapy in the Lanarkshire Beatson and for haematology. It is also the location of the Lanarkshire Maggie’s Centre. Judith Park, […]

One of the key elements of our healthcare strategy, Achieving Excellence, is organising hospital care in centres of excellence. Centres of excellence deliver high quality speciality services for the whole of Lanarkshire from one hospital site. Dr Iain Wallace, NHS Lanarkshire’s medical director, said: “Hospitals as centres of excellence is not a new idea in […]

An NHS Lanarkshire nurse has praised colleagues who helped save the life of her little girl after she was struck by a flesh-eating bug. Katie Groome said the quick thinking of staff at Wishaw General Hospital played a key role when a one-in-a-million chance saw her daughter, also called Katie, develop deadly necrotising fasciitis after […]