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: Get your Winter Protection against Flu and Covid; Stay healthy this winter – Take 10 micrograms of Vitamin D daily; and RMT Industrial Action.
Christmas message from NHSGGC Chairman Professor John Brown CBE.
Topics in this Core Brief: Improving our Safety Health and Wellbeing Culture (SHaW); Meet your administration colleagues; Active Staff – January 2023; and Upcoming Postal Disruption.
In this edition Jane talks about: temperatures drop across NHSGGC, services are experiencing high demand, Sarah McCann, Lead ANP at the Beatson Acute Oncology Unit has sadly passed away, congratulations to the orthopaedics team at the QEUH who have won this year’s Golden Hip award, Sandra Darwish and Robert Stuart who have become the first healthcare support workers to complete the Open University Pre-registration Nursing programme, Anne Harkness retires this week & this week’s patient feedback is about the team at the Dental Hospital.
Topics in this Core Brief: What Matters to You? Day 2022 – Report; Home Energy Scotland; and Reporting salaries correctly.
Topics in this Core Brief: Digital Clinical Notes; Last chance to help to design our new intranet!; and GGC Medicines Update.
Topics in this Core Brief: FIP becomes Sustainability and Value Programme; Long Service Badges; and RMT Industrial Action.
Topics in this Core Brief: Excellence Awards 2023; Disability History Month 2022; and Upcoming Postal Disruption.
In this issue Jane talks about: Significant pressures facing our staff, face coverings and good hand hygiene, two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, organ donation, 75th Anniversary of the Global Declaration of Human Rights & patient feedback this week is about the surgery team at GRI.
Topics in this Core Brief: Home for Lunch; 23,000+ patients diverted from A&E thanks to our Flow Navigation Centres; Equality Law – Getting it Right; Staff Disability Forum remote drop in session, all welcome; and RMT Industrial Action.
Topics in this Core Brief: Seasonal Influenza: Use of Antivirals 2022-23; New Scottish SAS contracts; Weather update; and Reporting salaries correctly.
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff Relaxation & Recuperation (R&R) Hubs; NHSGGC Fire Safety at Christmas; and EQIA Training Dates 2023.
Topics in this Core Brief: Become a registered nurse; Mental Health in the Workplace Webinar – A Guide for Managers (2hrs); Festive bus service levels; and Upcoming Postal Disruption.
In this issue Jane talks about: Seasonal pressures, Home for Lunch campaign launches, unannounced inspection of the QEUH and RHC, The Queens’s Nursing Institute Scotland awards, Healthcare People Management Association (HPMA) Awards, young patient turns on the Christmas tree lights at the RHC yesterday, Inverclyde League of Hospital Friends 50th anniversary, World AIDS day & feedback on District Nursing Team at Maryhill Health Centre.
Topics in this Core Brief: Help to design our new intranet!; World AIDS Day – Thursday 1 December; Disability History Month 2022; and Christmas and New Year Pay Arrangements.
Topics in this Core Brief: NHSGGC Statement: Positive Report on Infection Prevention and Control at QEUH.
Topics in this Core Brief: Letter from Chief Officers, Chief Nursing Officer Directorate; ‘Togetherness and Hope’ the annual remembrance event, 4 December 2022; and Let’s talk about… Staff Wellbeing Webinars (20 minutes).
Topics in this Core Brief: Christmas and New Year pay arrangements, Disability History Month 2022 & Postal Disruption.
In this issue Jane talks about: increases in ED attendances, Nursing Support Workers Day, pharmacy team pick up their Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Fellowship certificates, staff are encouraged to get vaccinated & feedback from a patient on vaccination clinics.
Topics in this Core Brief: Carers Rights Day – Thursday 24 November, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, GGC Medicines update & Christmas and New Year pay arrangements.
Topics in this Core Brief: Public Holidays 2023/24, QEUH Atrium Project, Nursing and Midwifery Support Workers Day, Lets talk about …Staff Wellbeing Webinars & NHSGGC Staff Witness Support
Topics in this Core Brief: National Dental Nurses Day – 22 November; Showcasing the role of Administration Staff; BME Staff Network Meeting – Wednesday 23 November; and Make the Pledge and Wear the Badge with Pride!
Topics in this Core Brief: School strike action; Christmas and New Year Pay Arrangements; Upcoming Postal Disruption; and Disability History Month 2022.
In this edition Jane talks about: The 2022 National Health and Social Care Staff Experience Report published, significant challenges brought forward as a result of the pandemic and forthcoming winter pressures, Stop Pressure Ulcer Day, congratulation to Dr Lindsay Donaldson on her appointment as Deputy Medical Director at NES, patient thanks our team in the Langlands Unit, QEUH & patient feedback on the Nuclear Medicine team at GRI.