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Awareness campaigns and acknowledging efforts

Awareness campaigns and acknowledging efforts

The week saw the launch of ‘See it, Say it, Do it’. The campaign asks those who use NHS Lanarkshire facilities to raise anything that they feel needs awareness. This could be anything from praising a member of staff to raising a concern about something they feel should be improved. Chief executive Calum Campbell appears […]

Trauma and orthopaedics feature in this weeks press

Trauma and orthopaedics feature in this weeks press

Both the Wishaw Press and the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser ran stories this week claiming NHS Lanarkshire was attempting to keep under wraps the trauma and orthopaedic review until after the election. However we assured both newspapers that this was definitely not the case and that the health board has been very open in identifying […]

A positive week in the press

A positive week in the press

This week’s papers saw a flurry of positive news coverage on NHS Lanarkshire. The Wishaw Press and Bellshill speaker celebrated the story of a family who returned to Wishaw General who thanked the staff for saving their twin boys lives. The family raised £2,500 to buy a twin cot for the hospital. The Rutherglen Reformer […]

Excellent and innovative work of our staff.

Excellent and innovative work of our staff.

It was a relatively quiet week for NHS Lanarkshire in the press this week. However there was still decent coverage of the excellent and innovative work of our staff. The papers who hadn’t used the story last week highlighted the fact that NHS Lanarkshire achieved a key national target on cancer treatment waiting times continually throughout […]