It’s Organ Donation Week

It’s Organ Donation Week and people across Scotland are being urged to show their support by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register. In Scotland, there are 4,345 people currently alive, thanks to organ donors and their families. And as a nation, 45 per cent of people have already shared their decision to become an organ […]

NHS Lanarkshire gets ready to walk Japan

NHS Lanarkshire gets ready to walk Japan

NHS Lanarkshire is gearing up for their second organisation wide walking challenge in Walk Japan, which officially kicks off on Thursday 14th September. Healthy Working Lives are hoping to build on the success of their first challenge Walk California, where more than 650 staff participated in the challenge. The aim for this challenge is to […]

Mix of voices captured for BCC

A double bill of films has been produced to capture the essence of South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership’s recent Building and Celebrating Communities (BCC) programme. BCC kicked off with a series of events, in early June. The aim of the open seminars, in each of South Lanarkshire’s four localities, was to explore how […]

Stepping up - walk california winners named

Stepping up – walk california winners named

The top three teams to complete the ‘Walk California Big Walk Challenge’ have been celebrated at recent breakfast achievement event. The first three teams to finish the challenge were the Rehab Rockstars, HM Pharmacy #1 and East Kilbride CMHT. A total of 55 teams managed to ‘Walk California’ and another 58 managed to get at […]

Buckingham Palace honour for our health and safety success

Staff from hotel services, West of Scotland Laundry and maintenance services represented their departments at the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. The event was to celebrate the Centenary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), which recognised invited guests from the public sector who were progressive in their approach to health […]