iMatter – our new way of understanding our staff’s experience – has begun in Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire. iMatter helps individual colleagues, teams and the partnership understand and improve how well motivated, supported and cared for staff feel at work. It puts the focus at team level – each team receives their own […]

“Canoe” help staff member Tom Wilson raise funds for NHS colleagues who gave his niece a new ear? Healthcare coordinator Tom Wilson, who’s based at Kirklands, is canoeing 60 miles in a fundraiser for NHS Lothian’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, better known as the Sick Kids. His niece, nine-year-old Anya, explained Tom’s […]

An SPFL footballer popped the big question in a unique way at Wishaw General Hospital’s maternity unit. Hamilton Accies Greek centre-back, Georgios Sarris, asked staff to dress his new-born baby daughter in a baby grow with “mummy will you marry my daddy?” written on the front. Georgios said: “I had been planning on how I […]

Doctors and nurses formed a human barrier to urge commuters to stop using Hairmyres Hospital as a free ‘park and ride’ facility. Staff and patients alike want train users to stop abusing the hospital car park as they are struggling to get parked, often resulting in being late for appointments or wasting time that could […]