Archive | October, 2019
Jean Donaldson

Retirement of Jean Donaldson

Friends and colleagues gathered to pay a fond farewell to Jean Donaldson, associate nurse director, South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership, who retired in August after a remarkable 40 years’ service. Jean trained as a nurse in Lanarkshire and, after qualifying in 1982, took up her first staff nurse post at University Hospital Monklands. […]

Ann Hill

Retirement of Ann Hill

Colleagues paid a fond farewell to payroll officer Ann Hill who retired in June after 30 years’ service. Ann, who was based at Kirklands Headquarters, Bothwell, joined NHS Lanarkshire in February 1989 when she took up employment at Strathclyde Hospital, Motherwell. In June 2005, Ann moved to University Hospital Monklands before transferring to Kirklands Headquarters […]

Project Search graduates

Project Search welcomes new intake

Monday 26 August saw the new intake of 24 students begin their journey on the 2019/20 programme Project Search, marking the project’s ten-year anniversary. Project Search is a partnership involving NHS Lanarkshire, North and South Lanarkshire Council, New College Lanarkshire, ISS and Serco and offers young students with additional support needs a work-focused college course […]

Adoption and Fostering image

Could you be a foster parent?

Foster carers come from all walks of life and a wide range of ages and domestic settings. National statistics show that the majority of foster carers come from either caring or blue light professions and deeper research has shown that this is because teachers, nurses, doctors, police and prison officers are on the frontline. They […]

Volunteer Jimmy Grieve

Sanctuary garden continues to blossom

Anyone who has visited University Hospital Wishaw (UHW) this year may have noticed a dramatic transformation to the sanctuary garden. There are now flower beds in full bloom, colorful planters and well-maintained borders to enhance the hard work that has already been carried out by the sanctuary garden group. The transformation has been made possible […]