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 include:
• Resident Doctor Industrial Action
• eEES Update – AfC Reduced Working Week hours from 1 April 2026
• Active Staff – Classes start back on Monday 12 January
Topics in this Core Brief include: Have Your Say – Shaping our Internal Communications and Employee Engagement Strategy; Listening to our patients; and M8, Hillington Interchange – Major Bridge Refurbishment.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Hear from Head of Health and Safety Freddie Warnock on the importance of Risk Management in keeping us all safe at work; and Do you need advice or support to carry out patients or public feedback or engagement activities?
Topics in this Core Brief include: Your chance to ask the Interface Team anything; and Looking After Yourself and Others – Monday 19 January.
Topics in this Core Brief include: New Counter Fraud Policy and Response Plan; and Message from NHSGGC HEPMA team and Antimicrobial Team.
Topics in this Core Brief include:
- Stepdown of Routine Mask-Wearing in Clinical and Non-Clinical Areas
- Colleagues honoured with MBEs in the New Year Honours List
Topics in this Core Brief include:
- NHS Circular PCS(DD) 2025/02 Policy for the Career Progression/Regrading of Specialty Doctor/Dentist to Specialist Grade
- Message from NHSGGC HEPMA team and Antimicrobial Team: Mandatory Indication Recording
- Improving career progression and safety for administration staff
- The Significant Adverse Event Review Process – from a family’s perspective
NHSGGC Board Chair, Dr Lesley Thomson KC, and Chief Executive, Professor Jann Gardner, share festive messages and their thanks for 2025 with colleagues.
This issue of Core Brief includes: A summary of the NHSGGC Board Meeting held on Thursday 18 December.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Workforce Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Bulletin.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Message from NHSGGC HEPMA team and Antimicrobial Team; GGC Medicines Update; and QI Network Event Wednesday 10 December 2025 – round up.
Topics in this Core Brief include: New Copilot features; NHSGGC Flexible Working Statement; Disability History Month: Thank you and what’s next; and Nearly 1,000 NHS staff sign up to menopause pilot.
Topics in this Core Brief include: The Big Conversation: Priority 2 – Professional Practice; Listening to our patients; NHSGGC Bin survey; and RAH – Vale of Leven shuttle bus.
This issue of Core Brief includes: an update on Hackathon 4 as the programme continues to co-design the future for NHSGGC.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Message from NHSGGC HEPMA team and Antimicrobial Team; Cyber Crime: Recognising the signs; and Quit for Christmas 2025.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Introducing the Updated Clinical Quality Publication Framework and Toolkit; and Quality Strategy Newsletter.
This message is a thank you from William Edwards, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer, following the System Reset.
Topics in this Core Brief include:
• Risk Management Q&A: Chief Risk Officer Katrina Heenan tackles five common misconceptions
• Staff Governance Standard: Provided with a Continuously Improving and Safe Working Environment
• M8, Hillington Interchange, Major Bridge Refurbishment – Festive period restrictions
Topics in this Core Brief include: Looking after yourself and others – New sessions for 2026; Are you a member of staff who is Deaf or a BSL user?; and Staff Spotlight: Maria Flynn’s Journey with Access to Work.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Parkhead Hub Officially Opens as Scotland’s Largest Integrated Health and Social Care Facility; Disability History Month – A message from our Employee Director Ann Cameron-Burns; Festive Pay Dates; and Public transport festive service levels 2025/26.
Topics in this Core Brief include: FRSMs (Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks) update; Why are Personal Development Planning and Review (PDP&R) conversations so important? Hear from Vice Chair David Gould; and Day 13 of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence.
In this edition of the Interface update, we dive into new patient pathways launched in the Flow Navigation Centre Plus (FNC+Plus), continue our recruitment drive, and welcome new members to the team.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Important information – universal use of masks in NHSGGC.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Influenza: Important Staff Information