NHS Lanarkshire, North and South Lanarkshire Councils are launching a patient-friendly Access Support Card for service users who need assistance to get to appointments. The card was designed service users told us that due to a number of  factors they sometimes found it difficult to get to their appointments after checking in. The cards will […]

14 Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) clients are well on their way to achieving the success they deserve. They all completed a course which is designed to enable them to achieve their goals and aspirations. Marion McPhillips, family nurse supervisor, said: “Achieve the Success You Deserve course is a partnership working with North Lanarkshire’s Working, North […]

Over 100,000 volunteers across Scotland have signed up to help shape the medicines of the future. To increase the number of volunteers further, NHS Lanarkshire held a series of events to encourage people to sign up to SHARE – the Scottish Health Research Register. Rebecca Hamill (16) signed up at Wishaw General Hospital. Rebecca said: […]

Congratulations to Cathy Courtney, lead nurse for sexual health, for an award-winning presentation. Cathy won first prize at the annual scientific meeting of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in Leeds, for her paper on an innovative service provided by sexual health lifestyle nurses in Lanarkshire. The nurses – Maria Dickson, Karen Murray and Karen […]

University of the West of Scotland (UWS) celebrated the successful delivery of the Leading Better Care (LBC) project within NHS Lanarkshire. Rather than prescriptive leadership, this creative collaboration between UWS and NHS Lanarkshire, which was established in 2012, enabled a whole system approach to support senior charge nurses, midwives and team leaders to fulfil their […]