After a remarkable 46 years service, school nurse Elizabeth Ann Fraser retired from NHS Lanarkshire. Ann, who was based at Shotts Health Centre, joined the health service in March 1971 when she took up employment with Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Ann thereafter went on to work in the community as a charge nurse with the evening […]

NHS Lanarkshire is introducing a single Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to support all five laboratory disciplines across all three acute hospital sites. Karen Aitchison, service manager for the laboratories, said: “A number of disparate LIMS have historically been in operation across the three acute hospital sites. “The new replacement Laboratory Information Management System and […]

A Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA) system has been implemented within NHS Lanarkshire. The aim of HEPMA is to remove paper based processes from prescribing and medicines administration and significantly improve patient safety and quality of care. Christine Gilmour, chief pharmacist, said: “HEPMA will improve our medicines management processes and enable greater control […]

Modern technology is becoming an increasingly familiar feature of health and care. This includes the use of telehealth, which supports people to safely manage a variety of conditions at home with a tablet or mobile phone. Now South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership (SLH&SCP) is holding a digital workshop – and is seeking public […]

A veteran who is believed to be the UK’s longest serving patient has died after spending 54 years in Wester Moffat Hospital. Jimmy Morris, who was 75 when he died, was admitted to the hospital in 1963 after he suffered a cardiac arrest on an operating table in Germany and was left in a vegetative […]