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Award for Lanarkshire schools dental project

Award for Lanarkshire schools dental project

A dental project carried out in NHS Lanarkshire has won a national award and was shortlisted for an international one after working to improve the oral health of children with physical disabilities and/or sensory or learning impairments. The Special Smiles Dental Project, a collaboration between NHS Lanarkshire and Action for Sick Children Scotland (ASCS), won […]

NHS Education for Scotland are looking for people to join a network of supporters for health literacy.

Health literacy is the range of skills that support people to find health information, understand it and to take action on it in a way that helps improve their health. Therefore, people with lower health literacy skills can be at risk of poor health outcomes if information is not available or provided in a way […]

Scottish Health Awards 2015

Scottish Health Awards 2015

Nominations are now open for the Scottish Health Awards 2015. Now in its 14th year, the Scottish Health Awards are run by the Daily Record in partnership with the Scottish Government. The Awards recognise the important contribution of those working in and with the NHS in Scotland to provide the very best of health and […]

Why joining The Club At Wishaw is helping patients

Why joining The Club At Wishaw is helping patients

Carers and relatives are seeing real differences in their loved ones thanks to innovative work taking place in Wishaw General Hospital. Karen Wilson, senior charge nurse, said: “Through our dementia work, we know that many of the stress and distress symptoms shown by some of our elderly patients can be related to inactivity and social […]

Channel 5 TV Show ‘Sick Note Skivers Exposed’ will air Wednesday 15 July at 8.00pm

Channel 5 programme on NHS fraudulent sickness absence The NHS counter fraud services (CFS) were approached some months ago by a television production company who were making a programme on behalf of Channel 5 about the impact of sickness absence fraud on the UK economy. Following discussions, and with the full co-operation of NHS Tayside, […]