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:
• Our Commitment to Gender Equality – Cut it Out/Equally Safe at Work (ESaW) programmes – Message from Jann Gardner, Chief Executive and Natalie Smith, Interim Director of HR and Organisational Development
• Primary Care Strategy – Faces of Primary Care & Continuing Engagement
• Drive a new electric or hybrid car with our Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme
Topics in this Core Brief: Primary Care Strategy – Message from Scott Davidson, Medical Director; ‘Send your baskets back’ – catering teams issue appeal to NHSGGC staff; and Clinical Guidelines Quarterly Update – Spring 2026.
Topics in this Core Brief: Working Together Across Primary Care; Requesting patient information in other formats and languages; and The Infection Prevention and Control Quality Improvement Network Newsletter (IPCQIN).
Topics in this Core Brief: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde celebrates nurses for International Nurses Day.
Topics in this Core Brief: Primary Care Strategy – Public Awareness; Catch Your Breath – Mental Health Awareness Week 2026; and GGC Medicines Update.
Topics in this Core Brief: iMatter 2026 launches today – have your say!; Primary Care Strategy – Supporting Care Close to Home; and Mental Health Awareness Week: 11 – 17 May 2026.
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Looking After Yourself and Others Session – Friday 15 May at 1.00pm
• Listening to our patients
• Staff Parking Reminder – Bus stops and bus lanes
Topics in this Core Brief: Medical and Dental – Consultant Grade Discretionary Points; How we care for our service users, and each other – celebrating the first year of Leading the Way; and Beatson publishes new information videos to help cancer patients feel more prepared and less anxious.
Topics in this Core Brief: New Clinical Leadership ‘Spotlights’ for Nursing and Midwifery; Working with External Organisations which involve Volunteers – Formal Agreements Required; and NHS Scotland Event 2026 – Call for posters now open!
Topics in this Core Brief: Thanking midwives as over 13,000 babies are born in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Topics in this Core Brief: iMatter – launching soon; Fraud Awareness: Summary of learning themes and real life examples of fraud – Part 1; Realistic Medicine module to complete by end of May 2026; and Weekend Closure: M8 Junction 26 Westbound Off-Slip Road.
Topics in this Core Brief: Bench unveiled at Royal Alexandra Hospital to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day; Staff security reminder: ID and suspicious items; New podcast: Why Cut it Out and Equally Safe at Work (ESaW) matter; and Values Based Reflective Practice® – Essential Toolkit Training.
Topics in this Core Brief: Return to Practice Guidance – Career Grade Medical Staff; Staff Parking Reminder – Pavement parking; and NHS Scotland Event 2026 – Call for posters now open!
Topics in this Core Brief: How We Assure Quality of Care: Strengthening Standards in Year One of Leading the Way; Chris Sanderson, Director of Procurement to take up new role with Public Services Delivery Scotland; and Active Staff Spring 2026 Walking Challenge – Starts on Friday!
Topics in this Core Brief: Workforce Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Bulletin.
Topics in this Core Brief: Share examples of work shaped by patient and public views – NHSGGC Overview Report 2025/26; Last chance to have your say on kindness and civility at work in our quick survey; Week 5 – Catch Your Breath Sessions; The Patient Experience Public Involvement Team – Bitesize Videos Focus Groups; and World Hand Hygiene Day 2026.
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Recording and Reporting Data Breach Incidents
• Introduction to Copilot Standard for NHSGGC Staff
• Launch: Looking After Yourself and Others – Updated eLearning (GGC 277 on LearnPro
• Use of Meta Smart Glasses on NHS Premises – guidance for staff
In this edition of the Interface Update, you’ll find:
• So, what is the FNC+ and Virtual Hospital? And why should you care?
• From trainee to ANP: discover how Jen worked her way up into an Advanced Nurse Practitioner role, and how you could do the same
• Curious about the work of the Interface team? Ask us anything at our upcoming session
• Opportunities to join the team
Topics in this Core Brief: Celebrating our admin colleagues on National Administrative Professionals Day! A message from our Chief Executive; Staff Parking Reminder – Blue Badge Spaces; The Green Brief – the new sustainability newsletter; and 2025/26 Annual Appraisal for Medical & Dental Staff – Completion Reminder.
Topics in this Core Brief: Your chance to learn about the work of the Interface team, and ask them anything; Everything you need to know about NHS Scotland’s National Digital Type 2 Diabetes Remission Programme – and expanded access to local Remission pathway; Patient Experience Public Involvement: Tools, Resources, and Support; and Civility Saves Lives – Online Champions Training – 2026 Schedule.
Topics in this Core Brief: Fraud Awareness Module; Kindness and civility at work – have your say in our two-minute survey; GGC Medicines Update; and NHSGGC Quality Strategy Newsletter.
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Senior leadership appointments at NHSGGC
• Two NHSGGC hospitals recognised among the UK’s leading healthcare providers
• Staff Parking Reminder – Restricted Areas
• The NHSGGC Staff Bursary – 1-week to go
• Public Protection Service – New Public Protection Training Sessions
Topics in this Core Brief: Workforce Systems – Bulk Upload Complete; Change to structure of Facilities Management team; Week 4 – Catch Your Breath Sessions; and Drive a new electric or hybrid car with our Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme.
Topics in this Core Brief: How We Develop Our Professions: A Year of Progress under Leading the Way; 2025/26 Annual Appraisal for Medical & Dental Staff – Completion Reminder; Have you completed the Realistic Medicine module?; eHealth changes name to Digital Services; and April is Stress Awareness Month.