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: Healthcare Staffing supports lunch and learn; Managed car parking reintroduced; Changes to fire response from 1 July affecting NHSGCC Community and Hospital buildings; Showcasing our staff – Charlotte Picken; NHSGGC Flying Start Protected Study Day Two; and Digital Maturity of Health and Care Services in Scotland – 2023.
Topics in this Core Brief: Clinical Waste Disposal – Incorrect Segregation of Waste; Hardship & Wellbeing Support for Staff; Showcasing our staff – Katie Earle-Payne; Rescue: Extreme Medics – series two starts tonight on Channel 4!; RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards; and Face Equality Week – 15-19 May 2023.
In this brief Jane talks about: International Nurses Day, RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards, iMatter, Team Brief & patient feedback on Ward 8C at Gartnavel General Hospital.
Topics in this Core Brief: Covid-19 Public Inquiries, Showcasing our staff – Elizabeth Thomson, M.E Awareness Day & Gum Health Day, GGC Medicines update, Administration Award Ceremony & Active Staff
Topics in this Core Brief: Change in Guidance on Face Masks across Health and Social Care; Showcasing our staff – Cancer MDT eHealth Project Team; iMatter 2023 – every voice matters; NaDIA National Diabetes Inpatient audit; and Rescue Extreme Medics – Monday 15 May.
Topics in this Core Brief: Showcasing our staff – Emergency Food Discharge Service; Managed car parking reintroduced; Changes to fire response from 1 July affecting NHSGCC Community and Hospital buildings; New Healthcare Science lead for NHSGGC; NHSGGC Peer Support – Looking after Yourself and Others; Acute Services Tracheostomy and Laryngectomy Education LearnPro; and Assistant Practitioner/Senior Charge Nurse-Midwifery Admin Assistant Service Needs Analysis.
Topics in this Core Brief: Showcasing our staff – Dr Abigail Gunn, Celebrating our reservist staff, Digital Maturity of Health and Care Services in Scotland – 2023, Sarah McCann Inspirational Award for Advanced Practice & RCN Nursing Awards 2023 deadline extended.
In this issue Jane talks about: Celebrating Success Awards, increase in statutory/mandatory staff training, International Day of the Midwife, second series of Rescue: Extreme Medics starts on 15 May, RAH team win Hospital Pharmacy Team of the Year, Anticipatory Care Team won the Promoting Planning Award & patient feedback from Ophthalmology patient at New Victoria Hospital.
Topics in this Core Brief: Celebrating Success Staff Award winners
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff Awards 2023; Supporting our colleagues through bereavement; World Hand Hygiene Day 2023; Open University pre-registration nursing programme; and Reporting salaries correctly.
Topics in this Core Brief: Managed car parking reintroduced; Changes to fire response from 1 July affecting NHSGCC Community and Hospital buildings; NHSGGC Peer Support – Looking after Yourself and Others; and Heart failure awareness week 1-7 May.
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff Awards 2023; Information Asset Register; World Hypertension Day and May Measurement Month – Hypertension Awareness Events; Starting Today! Demystifying Death Week 2023 Events (2–14 May 2023); Stress Awareness Month; and International Administration Professionals Day.
In this issue Jane talks about: visit by Caroline Lamb to the QEUH and Clydebank Health and Social Care Centre, visit to Leverndale Hospital last week, Mental Health team at Inverclyde Royal Hospital received an unannounced inspection from Healthcare Improvement Scotland, congratulations to our Recruitment Service in attracting new staff to join NHSGGC & patient feedback on the Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit at GRI.
Report from April meeting of the NHSGGC Board
The Board of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde met on Tuesday, 25 April 2023. The full set of papers are here.
This summary sets out key decisions and issues considered at the meeting.
Topics in this Core Brief: Urgent and Unscheduled Care (UUC) Oversight Board summary; Scottish Learning Disability Week 2023 – 1-7 May; NHSGGC Reading Challenge; Carolyn McDonald, Chief Allied Health Professional Officer, visits NHSGGC; and Reporting salaries correctly.
Topics in this Core Brief: Employee Support – Bullying, Harassment, Discrimination at Work; Current conflict in Sudan; NHSGGC Peer Support – Looking after Yourself and Others; International Administration Professionals Day; and Save the date – What Matters To You (WMTY) Day: Tuesday 6 June.
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff Awards 2023; Addition to Ward iPads; Clinical Pharmacology and Medicines Safety Month (12 April 2023 to 3 May 2023); and Procurement Department – change of reporting line.
Topics in this Core Brief: SPPA NHS Circular 2023/04 – Introduction of new options for flexible retirement; iMatter 2023 – every voice matters; AHP Education Fund now open; and Stress Awareness Month.
In this issue Jane talks about: new community glaucoma service, Chronic Pain team praised, Celebrating Success Awards event, new Scottish Medicines Consortium Chair named & our patient feedback is from a patient receiving treatment at Glasgow Dental Hospital.
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff Bursary 2023/24; COVID-19 Spring booster; UK Emergency Alert test; and Reporting salaries correctly.
Topics in this Core Brief: Improving our Safety Health and Wellbeing Culture (SHaW); Glasgow City Council Low Emission Zone; NHSGGC Phage Therapy Survey; and Diabetes MCN Conference.
Topics in this Core Brief: UK Emergency Alert test; Suicide Reducing and Management of Ligature Risks policy; and Staff Disability Forum meeting.
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff safety is important to us; Children and Young People with Exceptional Health Care Needs Protocol; Stress Awareness Month; Demystifying Death Week 2023 (1–7 May 2023); and Road closure for emergency water main repair.
In this issue Jane talks about: GRI & QEUH have been ranked in the prestigious Newsweek annual World’s Best Hospitals list, Moving Forward Together, World Parkinson’s Day, Margaret Mcguire has been awarded an honorary OBE & patient feedback from a patient who has received care at our Older People’s Services in the South Sector.