Are you ready for severe weather? Could you deal with its consequences? Make sure you are prepared this winter. Things to do now: • Read NHS Lanarkshire’s Adverse Conditions Policy. It is available on the policies section of FirstPort. • Know how your options for getting to work in the event of severe weather. What […]

NHS Lanarkshire’s School Immunisation Team has started its seasonal flu campaign. Parents and carers and being urged to get ready for winter by taking up the offer of the free flu vaccine for their children. The flu vaccine is offered to roughly 51,000 children through a programme in schools. The team are encouraging parents and carers […]

Colleagues have posed for a fun calendar to raise funds for St Andrew’s Hospice in Airdrie. Employees at Alison Lea Medical Centre in East Kilbride and other NHS Lanarkshire staff have been inspired to take part in the project by Grace Watson, practice manager in Dr Helen McNeil’s surgery. Grace’s husband was cared for at […]

Congratulations to Lynn Stewart and colleagues at Wishaw General, who held a bake sale to raise funds for The Haven charity and collected over £500. Organiser Lynn, clinical quality co-ordinator (cancer) in the Clinical Quality Team at Wishaw, said: “We put different charities in a hat and The Haven was pulled out. “We all came together […]