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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 28 July 2020 (Daily update, 11.20am)

Life on the Frontline – Diane Young, Operations Nurse Manager, Return to normal controlled parking arrangements, Scottish Health Awards 2020

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Core Brief 27 July 2020 (Daily update, 2.40pm)

Guard of Honour for our volunteers and Jobtrain recruitment system upgrade

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Core Brief 24 July 2020 (Daily update, 4.10pm)

QEUH Quality Improvement Awards

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Core Brief 23 July 2020 (Daily update, 4.20pm)

Life in the Frontline, Encouraging preliminary results for Oxford trial

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Core Brief 21 July 2020 (Daily update, 3.20pm)

New helpline will provide round the clock service, Should You Go To A&E, NHS pay award for medical and dental staff

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Core Brief 20 July 2020 (Daily update, 2.55pm)

PPE update – fluid resistant masks, Near me staff survey, Screening programmes are resuming, PPE for carers

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Core Brief 17 July 2020 (Chief Executive, 10.15am)

A lack of visitors has been one of the most difficult elements of the COVID situation and staff wellbeing is hugely important to us.

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Core Brief 16 July 2020 (Daily update, 4.05pm)

Message from Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development; Staff Disability Forum Virtual Meeting; Welfare Hubs get the thumbs up from NHSGGC staff; and Navigator Project returns to QEUH.

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Core Brief 15 July 2020 (Daily update, 10.15am)

Care Home Day – 15 July; Quarantine (Self-Isolation) for staff returning to the UK; and Launch of NMC web hub of supporting information and materials on its standards.

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Core Brief 14 July 2020 (Daily update, 3.05pm)

Life on the Frontline, RHC Health Play Specialist nominated for top award, Testing figures reach major milestone, Jobtrain recruitment system upgrade, Sustainability survey

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Core Brief 13 July 2020 (Daily update, 2.05pm)

Visiting reminder; Minor Injuries Unit (MIU – New Victoria); Near Me/Attend Anywhere; and Transport.

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Core Brief 10 July 2020 (Daily update, 6.35pm)

Gradual reintroduction on hospital visiting

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Core Brief 09 July 2020 (Daily update, 4.25pm)

Discontinuation of symptomatic staff testing; Social Distancing in the Workplace – Risk Assessment; Clarity on COVID-19 tests as Taxable Benefit in Kind; and Scottish Health Awards 2020.

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Core Brief 08 July 2020 (Board Meeting, June 9.15am)

Round up from the Board meeting held on Tuesday 30 June.

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Core Brief 07 July 2020 (Daily update, 11.10am)

Testing of Asymptomatic Staff.

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Core Brief 03 July 2020 (Daily update, 4.05pm)

Marking the 72nd Anniversary of the NHS; Violence in Emergency Departments; Guidance on Social Distancing within the Workplace; PPE Update – Fluid Resistant Masks, Attend Anywhere/Near Me drop in sessions and Car Parking Arrangements – Glasgow City Council

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Core Brief 03 July 2020 (Chief Executive, 2.20pm)

In this Core Brief Jane Grant talks about how this weekend we celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the NHS – and never has the celebration been more poignant

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Core Brief 01 July 2020 (Chief Executive, 12.15pm)

This Core Brief includes a message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, on the launch of A Fairer NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde 2020-24.

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Core Brief 30 June 2020 (Daily update, 4pm)

Life on the Frontline; Views sought on video consulting – Near Me; Staff Bursary Scheme 2020/21; Resuming cervical screening; and Care Home update – online information hub.

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Core Brief 26 June 2020 (Daily update, 3.50pm)

New arrangements for patients giving blood samples; Attend Anywhere Staff Sessions, Test and Protect Leaflet and Optometry Update

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Core Brief 25 June 2020 (Daily update, 6.30pm)

Face Masks and Face Coverings; Guidance on Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGPs); Public inquiry into the QEUH and RHC; and Re-elected Employee Director.

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Core Brief 24 June 2020 (Daily update, 5.30pm)

Life on the Frontline; Armed Forces Week (Reserves Day 24 June); Director of Allied Health Professions appointed; and Transport update.

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Core Brief 22 June 2020 (Daily update, 4.45pm)

Life on the Frontline; Message from Jonathan Best, Chief Operating Officer; and Grateful ICU staff go to great lengths to ‘give something back’.

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Core Brief 19 June 2020 (Chief Executive, 5.15pm)

Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive