Grace McGregor retires

Grace McGregor retires

After 20 years service, senior support worker Grace McGregor retired from NHS Lanarkshire in December 2015. Grace, who was attached to the speech and language therapy department at Douglas Street Community Health Clinic, previously worked for Strathclyde Regional Council as part of the first ever cohort of speech and language therapy assistants recruited in Lanarkshire. […]

Hard work pays off

Hard work pays off

Four community Band 5 nurses have successfully completed a new course which was developed in partnership with University of the West of Scotland. Jacqueline Fox, Mairi Ritchie, Yvonne Marshall and Louise Drury completed the course, which is aimed at new and existing staff nurses that are registered in the adult field of nursing and contains […]

Raising awareness around child sexual exploitation

Raising awareness around child sexual exploitation

NHS Lanarkshire is supporting the Scottish Government’s national campaign to raise awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE). Research shows that while most parents and carers know where their child or young person is when they go out, less know about their child’s behaviour when they are online. Wendy Mitchell, nurse consultant for child and adult […]

New ways of working improves use of space

New ways of working improves use of space

An initiative to look at new ways of working could see more staff having the option to work from home or chose a location more suited to whatever task they need to undertake that day. That’s the exciting prospect from a space utilisation exercise which is currently underway. Many large organisations – such as NHS […]

Whistle blowing policy update

Whistleblowing: safely raising concerns about risk, malpractice or wrong doing, is an updated policy approved by the Human Resources Forum. This policy, which can be found on FirstPort, aims to reassure staff that it is safe and acceptable to raise concerns and to describe the correct process for staff to follow. Irene Barkby, director of […]