NHS Lanarkshire has won an award for offering people with mental health issues the chance to bloom in confidence by tending flowers at local railway stations. The Adopt a Station gardening project, a partnership between NHS Lanarkshire’s mental health occupational therapy service and social enterprise Clydesdale Community Initiatives (CCI), scooped the prize for Outstanding Teamwork […]

The 2016 Lanarkshire Symposium for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities was held in the Strathclyde Hilton in Bellshill. The educational event, organised by Dr Khalid Nawab, clinical director in adult mental health, has become a regular feature in the clinical mental health calendar and regularly gets in excess of 100 health professionals from all over […]

We’ve made it even easier for people to make donations to NHS Lanarkshire’s endowment fund – and staff can help by giving advice to fundraisers. Their generous contributions – which amounted to over £150,000 last year – go into NHS Lanarkshire’s endowment fund, officially known as Lanarkshire Health Board Endowment Funds. To make it more […]

Have you signed up to receive your payslip electronically? Using epayslips instead of the traditional paper payslip is one of the easiest ways all staff can help NHS Lanarkshire meet its savings targets. Gordon Smith, head of finance and corporate services, said: “At the moment less than 10 per cent of our staff are using […]