Delighted Dave Henshelwood is singing the praises of healthcare staff – after they advised him to join a choir to help his recovery from lung cancer. Dave is one of the first people in Lanarkshire to take part in the ground-breaking Transforming Care After Treatment (TCAT) programme, an NHS Lanarkshire pilot project, funded by Macmillan […]

The tale of a retired rural rescue service boss – who praised a health and social care team in his own time of need – has been made into a short film. Alan Snowden, 90, from Biggar ran a service, along with his late wife Ida, which could be dispatched at short notice to tend […]

Consultant acute physician Calum McGregor is just back from a trip to Denmark where he picked up an international award on behalf of NHS Lanarkshire. Calum and colleagues took top spot in the International Prize in Resilient Health Care for 2016, run by the Australian Institute of Health Innovation and the Resilient Health Care Net. They […]

A Lanarkshire hospital is in the running for two awards thanks to the staff’s commitment to helping patients with dementia. Wishaw General Hospital has scooped two of the three available nominations in the acute care initiative category of Scotland’s Dementia Awards. One nomination marks the hospital becoming the first in Scotland to adopt John’s Campaign, […]

Two pilot schemes which have reduced business mileage, saving NHS Lanarkshire thousands of pounds, are to be rolled out at the end of this month. A car hire scheme, piloted within labs over the last year, has reduced business miles by almost 40 per cent, while a car pool scheme piloted over the same period […]