The Health Promoting Health Service (HPHS) initiative aims to support the development of a health promoting culture within the organisation. Launched in 2015, it applies to all acute, mental health, maternity, paediatrics and community hospitals across Scotland. NHS Lanarkshire is fully behind it and there is HPHS work currently taking place in relation to smoking, […]

The Met Office is forecasting that over the next 24 hours the Strathclyde region will experience squally wintry showers, with snow to low levels later. Make sure you are prepared. Things to do now • Read NHS Lanarkshire’s Adverse Conditions Policy on FirstPort – CLICK HERE • Know how your options for getting to work in […]

The Health Promoting Health Service (HPHS) initiative aims to support the development of a health promoting culture within the organisation. Launched in 2015, it applies to all acute, mental health, maternity, paediatrics and community hospitals across Scotland. NHS Lanarkshire is fully behind it and there is HPHS work currently taking place in relation to smoking, […]

An NHS Lanarkshire health and wellbeing nurse is practising what she preaches – after becoming an “Ironman” triathlete. Claire Purdie, who works with Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire’s KeepWell programme, put herself through a gruelling 10-month training regime to tackle the punishing Ironman triathlon – running, cycling and swimming in the heat of Barcelona […]