The Evening Times ran an article about figures in a new report showing that women from Lanarkshire experience higher-than-average rates of stillbirth and neonatal deaths than other parts of Scotland. The region recorded the second-highest rate in Scotland with 6.42 deaths per 1,000 births. However it is worth noting that the figure of 7,096 Lanarkshire resident […]
Step up for the distance challenge
Staff in the busy the busy emergency department at Hairmyres Hospital are used to being on their feet all day – so they thought they might as well see how much ground they actually cover.
They’ve signed up for the Step Count Challenge, wearing pedometers to log how many steps they do over a shift.
Emergency medicine consultant Dr Fiona Burton said: “There are 60 staff in 12 teams, keeping a count of their steps for three months. Most steps wins!”
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