Let's Connect is back soon

Let’s Connect is back soon

Coming soon! Your chance to buy a range of high-specification, brand new computers and smart phones, using a tax-efficient salary sacrifice arrangement. The popular Let’s Connect scheme will launch for NHS Lanarkshire staff in October. Payments come out of your gross salary, making savings on tax and national insurance. Look out for news of Let’s […]

Staff are socking it to sepsis

Staff are socking it to sepsis

NHS Lanarkshire staff will be highlighting how they “sock it to sepsis” tomorrow. September is Sepsis Awareness Month and teams from NHS Lanarkshire’s Reducing Harm Sepsis Collaborative will be holding roadshows during World Sepsis Day on 13 September. They will have information stalls in the ASDA stores in Cumbernauld, Hamilton and Motherwell as part of […]

Focus on patient safety

Focus on patient safety

NHS Lanarkshire will raise the profile of patient safety during a week of special events and activities to engage and inform staff. Patient Safety Week will be held from 24 October, marking the launch of a refreshed Prioritised Patient Safety Plan following two years of successful work by the Patient Safety Reducing Harm Collaborative. During […]

Combating antibiotic resistance - new app for decision support

Combating antibiotic resistance – new app for decision support

NHS Education for Scotland, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group have recently launched a new mobile app to provide decision support for antimicrobial prescribing – with the ultimate aim of combating antibiotic resistance. It is hoped this app will be a welcome development, as improving antibiotic prescribing is a top NHS priority. […]