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: Supporting staff working through the night; CISCO-21 Clinical Trial in Long COVID; and Public Protection Service: Learning & Education Training Sessions 2023.
In this issue Jane talks about: We continue to face very significant pressure across our health and social care services, first babies of the New Year born within NHSGGC, excellent examples of the way we use innovative technology within NHSGGC, our use of robotic surgery at GRI has also been showcased in recent days & patient feedback has been shared about one of our patients who was receiving care from our Older People’s Service team at the New Victoria.
Topics in this Core Brief: Reminder to complete death certificates, Reporting salaries correctly & RMT Industrial Action.
In this edition Jane talks about the recent challenges, an incident which took place at GRI, violence and aggression in the workplace, the first Christmas babies born in NHSGGC and feedback from a patient who attended the QEUH.
Topics in this Core Brief: Message from Sandra Bustillo, Director of Communications and Public Engagement and Reminder to complete death certificates.
Topics in this Core Brief: Announcement from Dr Jennifer Armstrong, NHSGGC Medical Director – Appointment – Director of Medical Education; Public Holiday for the Coronation of King Charles III – Monday 8 May 2023; Launch of the Staff Experience Success Stories; Reporting salaries correctly; and Active Staff – January 2023.
In this edition Jane wishes everyone the very best for the festive period and thanks staff for their hard work over the past year. She also talks about the challenges over the past year and the commitment and dedication of staff.
Report from the December Board meeting.
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.