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Management team secretary Jean Devlin retires

Management team secretary Jean Devlin retires

Colleagues and family bid a fond farewell to Jean Devlin, management team secretary, who retired from NHS Lanarkshire in October after eight years service. Jean, who was part of the north-east unit at Netherton House, Wishaw, joined NHS Lanarkshire in 2007 as a management team secretary for the Motherwell locality based at Strathclyde Hospital, Motherwell, […]

Pauline Yule retires

Pauline Yule retires

Friends and family bid a fond farewell to Pauline Yule who retired from NHS Lanarkshire in October after a remarkable 37 years service. Pauline, a team leader with the public health team at Motherwell Health Centre, joined NHS Lanarkshire in 1978 when she was appointed as an auxiliary nurse at Law Hospital. In 1979, Pauline […]

Liz and Lee check standards of postgrad training

Liz and Lee check standards of postgrad training

Two of our staff have been appointed to new roles by the organisation that spearheads education and training in the NHS in Scotland. Liz Kilgour, microbiology services technical manager, and biomedical scientist Lee McMullen are now tasked with assessing postgraduate training in their specialties on behalf of NHS Education for Scotland (NES). Liz has become […]

Taking the lead in quality improvement

Taking the lead in quality improvement

Four staff have shown their “ScIL” by successfully completing a quality improvement course. The Scottish Improvement Leader (ScIL) programme is a lead-level quality improvement (QI) programme developed by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) in partnership with the Scottish Government. ScIL aims to develop people to lead large-scale improvement projects within their organisation as well as […]

Scotland’s newest radiotherapy centre opens this month

Scotland’s newest radiotherapy centre opens this month

The Lanarkshire Beatson, Scotland’s newest radiotherapy centre, will open to patients on 30 November. Ahead of the opening, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing visited the centre at Monklands Hospital, Airdrie. Speaking about the new facility Shona Robison said: “Demand for radiotherapy treatment is set to increase significantly over the next ten years as […]