Lanarkshire’s Hospital at Home team is courting interest from the furthest reaches of the globe – including an earthquake-stricken region of Chile. The specialist emergency team, which has recently expanded in Lanarkshire and provides hospital-level care in older people’s own homes, has been subject to growing national and international attention. This includes liaising with healthcare […]

NHS Lanarkshire publishes blogs regularly via the Patient Opinion website – https://www.patientopinion.org.uk/ The blogs outline changes and improvements linked to feedback from patients, carers and staff. Below is a recent blog by Jean Donaldson, associate director of nursing for long term conditions, wrting about changes NHS Lanarkshire is making to community nursing services: Hello my […]

A seven-year-old primary school pupil is helping NHS Lanarkshire appeal to smokers not to light up on hospital grounds. Milly O’Hare is one of five Lanarkshire people who feature on a poster which is starting to appear on NHS Lanarkshire grounds reminding smokers that they are not permitted to smoke or use e-cigarettes on the […]

Around 2000 people in Lanarkshire could be unaware they have a disease that is perfectly treatable. That’s the message Lanarkshire’s Blood Borne Virus (BBV) team aimed to get across on World Hepatitis Day, which fell on Tuesday 28 July, by encouraging people to get a simple test which will detect the presence of hepatitis. Hepatitis […]