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 […]
Urgent care course graduates
Congratulations to the 28 nurses and allied health professionals who have graduated from the urgent care course, formally known as MINTS (Minor/Major Injury/Illness Nurse Treatment Service).
Veronica Kellighan, NHS Lanarkshire risk management facilitator/MINTS admin, said: “Lanarkshire’s MINTS service has grown significantly over the past few years due to hard work and commitment from our dedicated nurses and AHPs.
“We currently have practitioners who have embarked on the course working within advanced practitioner roles in medical receiving units, ambulatory care units, orthopaedics, surgical units, minor injury units, ACE services and within the Hospital at Home teams.”
Unfortunately not all graduates could attend the ceremony at the University of the West of Scotland due to work commitments, so some are not pictured.
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