“Don’t be scared – just be prepared”. That’s the message from one of the revalidation pioneers among NHS Lanarkshire’s midwives. Charge midwife Alison Stark, who works on ward 22 at Wishaw General, said: “I buried my head in the sand, hoping it would go away, as I really didn’t know what it was all about. […]

Reading Ahead is the new name for the Six Book Challenge and supports staff by changing their perception of reading, opening up opportunities and building their confidence. Run through Knowledge Services, Reading Ahead invites participants to pick six reads and record, rate and review them in a diary in order to get a certificate. The […]

Asked how she’d sum up the new revalidation process for nurses and midwives, Karen Thompson says, in all sincerity: “It was a joy!” “I really got into it and found it very enjoyable,” smiles Karen, team leader/integrated community support manager in the Biggar Aligned Team. Revalidation, which began in April, is a requirement from the […]

Head of finance (acute division), Charles Sloan, retired after 14 years’ service. Prior to joining NHS Lanarkshire in 2002, Charles worked for many years in the private sector. Charles lives in East Kilbride with his wife Jeanette. They have one son, Ben. Director of finance Laura Ace said: “Charles has had a varied career but […]

After 35 years’ service, physiotherapist Anne McAloon retired from NHS Lanarkshire in May. Anne, who worked in the physiotherapy department at Wishaw General Hospital, qualified as a physiotherpist from Queens College, Glasgow in 1981. She then took up employment with NHS Lanarkshire at Monklands Hospital where she spent time in a promoted post between Coathill […]