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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Topics in this Core Brief: Listening to our patients.
Topics in this Core Brief: Calling non-frontline staff: flu vaccinations available now.
Topics in this Core Brief: Sustainability – waste management update.
In this issue Jane talks about: Apprenticeship Graduation and Awards, Success Register, the use of intrathecal drug delivery (ITDD) has helped patients, former patients at our Neonatal Unit at the Royal Hospital for Children & this week, our patient feedback is about the team at the West of Scotland Breast Screening Service.
Topics in this Core Brief: New Success Register for staff & Flu & COVID-19 vaccinations for staff – Booking and drop-in bus dates now available
Topics in this Core Brief: Safety Health and Wellbeing (SHaW) Task Calendar update & Important Information Regarding Pension Savings Statements and Annual Allowance Tax Charges for 2022-23
In this edition Jane talks about: National Records of Scotland figures which highlighted a decline in drug deaths across Scotland, the Lucy Letby trial, we have received the keys to our new staff wellbeing bus, South Asian Heritage Month & our patient feedback is about the team at the QEUH Maternity Unit.
Topics in this Core Brief: Update from the Area Partnership Forum.
Topics in this Core Brief: Cyber Crime: Recognising the signs; and Dates announced for flu & COVID-19 staff vaccinations.
Topics in this Core Brief: Care Opinion Annual Report 2022-2023.
Topics in this Core Brief: New Director of Public Health.
In this issue Jane talks about: Cabinet Secretary visit to Inverclyde Royal Hospital and Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the robotics team at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary have recently celebrated a ground-breaking achievement, Junior Doctors across Scotland have voted to accept the pay offer from the Scottish Government, Dr Ioanna Nixon, the Clinical Director of the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, has been announced as a finalist in the Services to Medicine category at this year’s Scottish Women’s Award, the closing date for the Scottish Health Awards has now passed, the public vote for the People’s Choice Award winner will open from Monday 18 September, the Patient Experience and Public Involvement Team has been shortlisted for an award for their engagement with maternity services users & our patient feedback this week is about several teams and how collectively, staff from the GRI, Beatson and East Renfrewshire HSCP delivered a great standard of patient centred treatment and support.
Topics in this Core Brief: Managing personal data – what this means for you; and Exit interviews.
Topics in this Core Brief: Highlight report from the Workforce Equality Group meeting.
Topics in this Core Brief: New helpline to raise concerns about bullying or harassment.
In this issue Jane talks about the Big Conversation, South Asian Heritage Month, , the UCI World Cycling Championship, the Scottish Health Awards and feedback from a relative of one of our patients who received treatment on Ward 56 at the QEUH.
Topics in this Core Brief: Highlight report from the Urgent and Unscheduled Care Oversight Board Meeting.
Topics in this Core Brief: NHSGGC Protocol for managing visits; Reporting salaries correctly; and Transport update.
In this issue Jane talks welcomes our new group of newly qualified doctors to our hospitals and thanks our doctors who have come to the end of their rotations with NHSGGC. We also we welcomed the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, Michael Matheson MSP, to our Long COVID Service. She talks about the ways in which we may use WhatsApp and congratulates Erin Walker, one of our Specialist Physiotherapists within Older Peoples Services, who has won a highly prestigious international award. This week our patient feedback comes from the partner of one of our patients who was treated by the Stroke Care service at the IRH.
Topics in this Core Brief: Equalities Bulletin.
Topics in this Core Brief: Report from the Health and Safety Forum.
Topics in this Core Brief: Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHaW) Task Calendar and Active and Sustainable Travel events.
In this issue Jane talks about: an unannounced HIS inspection at Gartnavel General Hospital, meeting with the maternity team at the QEUH to speak with them about the Best Start project and visit the Alongside Midwife Unit, Neonatal Unit teams at the GRI and PRM were recognised by UNICEF, today is World Hepatitis Day & patient feedback from the parent of one of our young patients who received treatment at the Royal Hospital for Children.