September will see the launch of a ‘soap opera’ featuring NHS Lanarkshire staff. It will see the first of three short films released to help promote key infection prevention and control (IPC) messages such as good hand hygiene. A host of staff volunteered to appear in the films after an appeal went out earlier this […]

It is important that both parents are healthy prior to becoming pregnant. This is the key message in a new animation which promotes preconception health and care. Ashley Goodfellow, public health specialist, said: “Preconception health is the mental and physical health of men and women during their reproductive years. “Both men and women need to […]

Staff at Law House have donated to Clydesdale Food Bank, a local charity which provides nutritionally balanced food, household goods and other necessities to support local people who are referred in a crisis. Food-Bank use in Scotland is “disproportionately higher” than in any other part of the UK. Welfare problems and low income are pushing […]

A local grandmother is encouraging others to take up the offer of a free breast screening appointment, after a routine mammogram picked up on breast cancer. Linda Barclay, from Bellshill, was diagnosed with breast cancer six years ago. Linda said: “I had been for a routine mammogram once before, so I didn’t expect the results […]

Staff are being reminded to cancel meeting room bookings they no longer plan to use. The reminder comes following evidence that despite being booked, up to a third of meeting rooms across all locations still go unused. Head of planning, Graham Johnston, said: “We realise that meetings can often be cancelled at short notice, but […]