A pilot initiative which has markedly improved the lives of people in care homes in Lanarkshire has won a prestigious UK award. The Care Home Continence Improvement project, developed by teams in NHS Lanarkshire and NHS National Services Scotland, triumphed in the highly-contested innovation category at the recent UK-wide GO awards which celebrate excellence in public […]

Through our pharmacists in practice work stream we now have GP Clinical Pharmacist (GPCP) support in 22 practices across Lanarkshire. Clinical pharmacists can help free up GP time and reduce practice prescribing budgets. The GPCP roles have developed in ways to suit each individual GP Practice with Pharmacists carry out a range of duties including […]

The programme is taking a ‘digital-first’ approach to extend and improve the use of information technologies in GP Practices. There are a range of innovative projects within this workstream to help release GP time to focus on complex cases. The key areas being implemented include providing – on-line access for patients for patients to book […]

A new initiative between Branchalwood General Practice, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS 24, is aiming to increase the time available to GPs to focus on the cases that only they can help with. The practice began trialing a new approach in November last year to manage requests from patients for same-day appointments as part of the […]

Establishing paediatric nurses as part of the out of hours team has proved to be very successful for patients, families and staff. Prior to this, if a child attended the out of hours centre with a condition which required a period of monitoring both the child with their parent/carer would normally have been transferred on […]