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Core Brief

Core Brief is our regular employee update and provides important updates across a variety of topics, ranging from operational and site specific information, through to messages for our staff from our Chief Executive.

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Core Brief

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Core Brief – 20 November 2024 (Daily update, 11.30am)

Topics in this Core Brief: Staff winter vaccination clinics this weekend and Food, Fluid and Nutrition resources for acute settings.

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Core Brief – 19 November 2024 (Daily update, 3.45pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Listening to our patients and Social media reminder.

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Core Brief – 19 November 2024 (Daily update, 1.00pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: New HSCP Chief Officer Announced.

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Core Brief – 18 November 2024 (Daily update, 12.30pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Supporting Fair Work in NHSGGC; Taxi and courier complaints; and Let’s talk about… Bereavement.

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Core Brief – 15 November 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 6.00pm)

In this issue Jane talks about: e welcomed the Deputy First Minister, Kate Forbes, MSP, and the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport, Maree Todd, MSP, to Leverndale Hospital’s Mother and Baby Unit; Clydebank Health and Care Centre has won two awards at the Building Better Healthcare annual awards ceremony this week; we are working towards achieving Equally Safe at Work accreditation; the launch of the Lifelong Smiles programme; and feedback from a patient in J North and J South staff at IRH.

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Core Brief – 14 November 2024 (Daily update, 10.50am)

Topics in this Core Brief: Staff winter vaccination clinics this weekend; Hardship and Wellbeing support for staff; Policy Development Framework; Quality Strategy Newsletter; and Power of Attorney Day 2024 – 21 November 2024.

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Core Brief – 13 November 2024 (Daily update, 1.50pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Appeal to staff to ‘Flick that Switch’ and turn lights off when they leave work; Band 5 nurses urged to apply for role re-evaluation; Thinking of retiring – Important changes to SPPA application dates; and Carers Rights Day 2024 – 21 November 2024.

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Core Brief – 12 November 2024 (Daily update, 12.50pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Sexual Harassment: Your voice matters; Become a Peer Supporter!; and Quality Improvement Network Event.

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Core Brief – 11 November 2024 (Daily update, 9.10am)

Topics in this Core Brief: Remembrance Day – 11 November and GGC Medicines Update.

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Core Brief – 8 November 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 4.45pm)

In this issue Jane talks about: Congratulates our winners from the Scottish Health Awards; a visit from the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Gregor Smith, to Kirkintilloch Health and Care Centre and the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre; Remembrance Day; highlights that work has begun on the replacement of our Radionuclide Dispensary, following approval to relocate the facility from the old Western Infirmary site to Gartnavel; Occupational Therapy (OT) Week; and patient feedback on the Vale of Leven day surgery unit.

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Core Brief – 7 November 2024 (Daily update, 4.15pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: The Health and Care (Staffing)(Scotland) Act 2019; Partial Retirement; and Band 5 nurses urged to apply for role re-evaluation.

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Core Brief – 6 November 2024 (Daily update, 2.40pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Stress Awareness Week: 4 – 8 November 2024 and NHSGGC Protocol for managing visits.

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Core Brief – 5 November 2024 (Daily update, 4.35pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Chronic Pain Turas Learn Training – for all staff; Care Home Collaborative; and Malnutrition Awareness Week: 11-17 November.

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Core Brief – 4 November 2024 (Daily update, 11.45am)

Topics in this Core Brief: Armed Forces Community; GGC Medicines update; and Health Literacy Month Feedback.

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Core Brief – 1 November 2024 (Update from the October Board meeting, 5.30pm)

This Core Brief gives an update from the NHSGGC October Board meeting.

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Core Brief – 1 November 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 2.35pm)

In this issue Jane talks about: thanks our fantastic peer immunisers for their tremendous work delivering the flu vaccination to staff; the West Dunbartonshire HSCP Staff Awards; On Wednesday, I met with the Scottish Information Commissioner alongside our Freedom of Information (FOI) team as part of our commitment to the FOI process; and patient feedback on Ward 6C at Gartnavel General Hospital.

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Core Brief – 31 October 2024 (Daily update, 12.50pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Band 5 nurses urged to apply for role re-evaluation; Malnutrition Awareness Week: 11-17 November; and Health Literacy Month Conclusion: Ask questions, get better patient.

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Core Brief – 30 October 2024 (Daily update, 3.45pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Reduced Working Week hours – eESS Records; Looking after yourself and others – sessions in November; and Online Training Sessions for Abbott FreeStyle Meters (POC Glucose/Ketone).

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Core Brief – 30 October 2024 (Daily update, 12.00pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Announcement on new Chief Executive.

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Core Brief – 29 October 2024 (Daily update, 10.50am)

Topics in this Core Brief: Festive pay dates; Let’s talk about… Menopause; Child Death Reviews; and New clinical trial seeks over 60s.

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Core Brief – 28 October 2024 (Daily update, 12.15pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Staff Money Worries Support Campaign 2024; Support for staff affected by International Events; Armed Forces Engagement Sessions – November 2024; and Black History Month: Reclaiming Narratives Event.

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Core Brief – 25 October 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 12.00pm)

In this issue Jane talks about: our Annual Review event; managing financial pressures, we need to look at ways to work smarter and maximise our resources; this week, Chair, Dr Lesley Thomson KC hosted Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care at a visit to the Beatson; our Biorepository, based at the QEUH Laboratory Medicine Building, has achieved ISO: 20387:2018 accreditation – the first centre in the UK to achieve such a standard; and patient feedback on the Ophthalmology Clinic at the New Victoria Hospital.

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Core Brief – 24 October 2024 (Daily update, 12.45pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Price revision at catering outlets; Invitation to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Annual Review 2023/24; Information Asset Register; To Absent Friends Week (1 – 7 Nov 2024); and Health Literacy Month.

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Core Brief – 23 October 2024 (Daily update, 3.40pm)

Topics in this Core Brief: Investors in People plaque presented to NHSGGC; Review of Band 5 Nursing Roles; UKHSA Briefing Note; Launch of New NHSGGC Public Protection Service Sharepoint Site; and Roadworks M8 and M898.