NHS Lanarkshire ran a special bowel screening awareness drive focused on the Airdrie area in November. Initiatives to encourage locals to use their home bowel screening tests included events in Airdrie town centre, at the local health centre and at Monklands Hospital, supported by NHS Lanarkshire’s bowel screening champions. Accompanied by health improvement practitioner Wendy […]

A grandfather has thanked NHS Lanarkshire staff after a bowel cancer screening test helped him beat the disease. Bob White has now had successful treatment and is backing NHS Lanarkshire’s drive to ensure everyone uses their bowel screening kit. Bob, from Kirkmuirhill, said: “I didn’t have any symptoms but the test identified that I had […]

The 2015 Lanarkshire Symposium for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities was held on 6 November in the Strathclyde Hilton. As always, it attracted a wide range of health professionals from all parts of Scotland and some areas of England, and was opened by the Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health Jamie Hepburn MSP. […]

Clinical services secretary Collette Hamill is bristling with delight after her brother raised nearly £4000 for charity by shaving off his bushy beard. NHS Lanarkshire staff were among the generous supporters who sponsored Daniel Hamill to have his face fuzz chopped after he’d grown it for two years. Daniel raised around £3750 in aid of […]