The Evening Times ran an article about figures in a new report showing that women from Lanarkshire experience higher-than-average rates of stillbirth and neonatal deaths than other parts of Scotland. The region recorded the second-highest rate in Scotland with 6.42 deaths per 1,000 births. However it is worth noting that the figure of 7,096 Lanarkshire resident […]
Good news – and some negative coverage
The retirement after 50 years of NHS Lanarkshire’s longest-serving employee, biomedical scientist Gordon Gilmour, was noted by the Evening Times, Wishaw Press and Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser.
Also on the positive side, the same papers told how the public were involved in choosing possible new dishes for the inpatient menu during a food tasting event at Monklands Hospital.
More good news in the Wishaw Press as Kirkmuirhill’s Lodge Nethan St John raised £4000 for Lady Home Hospital in Douglas after a sponsored climb of Ben Nevis, while the launch of the ninth Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival in Lanarkshire was highlighted by the Evening Times and the Hamilton Advertiser.
The Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser focused on Coatbridge pensioner Bridget Dunion, who has put people decades younger to shame by learning to swim at the age of 92 as part of pilot scheme involving NHS Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire Leisure and Summerlee Care Home, where she stays.
Maggie’s Lanarkshire is in the running for the 2015 Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award for its Lanarkshire Centre, within the grounds of Monklands Hospital, said the Evening Times.
There was, inevitably, some negative press coverage.
MSP John Pentland, a regular critic of NHS Lanarkshire, told the Wishaw Press he believed chief executive Calum Campbell should resign, citing issues including staffing, A&E waiting times, GP out-of-hours provision and waiting lists.
Calum responded by pointing out that the health board is among the best performing in a number of areas and that Mr Pentland, who has not taken up offers of a meeting, was quoting some out-of-date statistics.
In another Wishaw Press story, a reader told how his mother suffered facial injuries in a fall at Wishaw General just days before her death last December. Gillian Corbett, chief of nursing services, explained that the hospital has undertaken a lot of work to reduce falls in wards as part of the national patient safety collaborative, resulting in a 24 per cent reduction in falls since May.
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