Every member of our staff contributes to better care. Do you know someone who has experienced outstanding patient care from a member of our staff. Maybe you are a staff member who is working together in new and co-operative ways to improve the way we deliver services.
Have you or someone you know taken an innovative approach to patient care? Or perhaps you or someone you know has developed a new product which helps and improves everyday practices in the workplace. We know our staff provide incredible patient care but we need you to tell us your stories.
Better Health
Do you know of or are you involved with an initiative which seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of patients, the public and/or staff, such as healthy eating; smoking cessation; financial inclusion; physical activity; equalities in health and wellbeing; or improving mental health activities. If so, then we want you to tell us all about it.
Better Value
We want to hear about initiatives which have been implemented to achieve better productivity within NHSGGC. As a staff member, maybe you have devised a way to deliver the same quality of service more efficiently or perhaps you have submitted an idea to our Small Change Matters campaign. If you know of something which is being done differently or has taken a new approach to work which makes better use of resources, then you should enter this category.
Better Workplace
We are pleased to introduce a new award category to recognise the often unseen work of our staff who are helping to make NHSGGC a Better Workplace. Have you or someone you know developed a new approach to team working at local level, helping to improve workplace culture? Or have you or someone you know delivered an innovative approach to helping improve staff health and wellbeing. If you are a staff member share with us how you have positively supported diversity, inclusion and releasing potential of your colleagues or nominate one of your team/manager for supporting you personally.
Global Citizenship
Do you know someone who has travelled overseas either as part of a team or individually to provide healthcare and/or education in developing countries or in countries in crisis? Or maybe you have been part of a team who has travelled overseas. Are you or someone you know in the Reserve Forces or have you or someone you know taught people from abroad within NHSGGC’s own healthcare facilities. We want to hear all your stories of our staff helping people from other countries.
Nursing & Midwifery
Do you know a nurse or group of nurses who display the best qualities of patient care and the ethos of nursing? Do you know a nurse or midwife who deserves recognition? Has someone you know made a difference to the care of patients and their families in a hospital or in the community? If so, we want you to tell us all about them.
Volunteer
We want to hear about people who are providing outstanding help and support through volunteering or those who have provided patient opinions perhaps on a Public Partnership Forum within a HSCP or on a patients’ panel. The people that go the extra mile, contributing tirelessly for the benefit of other patients, we want to hear about the work they do.
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When filling in your nomination form, don’t forget to put as much detail as you can. Remember, you are telling a judging panel who don’t know the person, team or service you are nominating. Simply saying someone goes above and beyond is not enough detail for the judging panel to score on. Give clear, direct and specific detail. Include enough information for the panel to become familiar with the nominee.
Guidelines for writing your nomination
Please read the category criteria so you understand what the judges are looking for
You can submit as many nominations as you wish
The way in which the person/team or the project is exemplary should be detailed
Start with a clear, direct, and specific statement of why the nominee deserves recognition. Include enough information for the panel to become familiar with the nominee’s specific challenges faced, actions taken, and results or goals met. List the most important information in the first few sentences and then elaborate as necessary
Give specific examples that address the award criteria and elaborate on why the nominee’s accomplishments are worthy of the award
Examples could include outcomes, results, and/or activities ‘above and beyond’ the nominee’s job description. Include qualities that make this person outstanding, and that are clearly relevant to the award criteria (eg, contribution, team-building, collaboration, initiative, and leadership)
Provide a complete overview of the nominee or team’s accomplishments. It is important to tell the nominee’s story as you would to a stranger.
We are delighted to announce that we have teamed up with neighbouring local authority leisure providers to offer staff the chance to sign up to discounted leisure memberships. The scheme works by NHSGGC paying the annual membership fee, entitling staff to a 12 months membership. Staff sign a salary mandate form and the payments are deducted on a monthly basis from salary for a period of 12 months.
Download the application form from the link above and send the completed form and any enquires to gym.applications@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
We start new memberships on the 1st of each month. Please apply at least 2 weeks before the day you would like your membership to start to allow time to process your application.
Any applications received after this date will be added in to the next month applications.
To activate your membership:
Local authorities vary but usually once the membership is set up you will be given a membership numbers which you can quote at the first visit to the gym/facility. The facility will then issue a membership card.
Cancelling your membership:
See local authority terms and conditions. If you wish to cancel email gym.application@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or write to Kim Friel (Ledger Manager). However, the loan is for one whole year, if you cancel before the membership is finished you will have to pay the outstanding balance.
Download the application form from the link above and send the completed form and any enquires to gym.applications@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
We start new memberships on the 1st of each month. Please apply at least 2 weeks before the day you would like your membership to start to allow time to process your application.
Any applications received after this date will be added in to the next month applications.
To activate your membership:
Local authorities vary but usually once the membership is set up you will be given a membership numbers which you can quote at the first visit to the gym/facility. The facility will then issue a membership card.
Cancelling your membership:
See local authority terms and conditions. If you wish to cancel email gym.application@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or write to Kim Friel (Ledger Manager). However, the loan is for one whole year, if you cancel before the membership is finished you will have to pay the outstanding balance.
NHSGGC staff can take advantage of a reduced membership rate of £21.96 per month for the Glasgow Club. This gives access to all local authority sport and leisure facilities in Glasgow, including swimming, gym, and fitness classes. For more information go to www.glasgowclub.org
The scheme works by Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board paying the annual membership fee of £285.50 to Glasgow City Council. This entitles membership of the Glasgow Club for a period of 12 months with 1 extra month included. To more info, guidance, terms and conditions and application form, go to:
Download the application form from the link above and send the completed form and any enquires to gym.applications@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
We start new memberships on the 1st of each month. Please apply at least 2 weeks before the day you would like your membership to start to allow time to process your application.
Any applications received after this date will be added in to the next month applications.
To activate your membership:
Local authorities vary but usually once the membership is set up you will be given a membership numbers which you can quote at the first visit to the gym/facility. The facility will then issue a membership card.
Cancelling your membership:
See local authority terms and conditions. If you wish to cancel email gym.application@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or write to Kim Friel (Ledger Manager). However, the loan is for one whole year, if you cancel before the membership is finished you will have to pay the outstanding balance.
Download the application form from the link above and send the completed form and any enquires to gym.applications@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
We start new memberships on the 1st of each month. Please apply at least 2 weeks before the day you would like your membership to start to allow time to process your application.
Any applications received after this date will be added in to the next month applications.
To activate your membership:
Local authorities vary but usually once the membership is set up you will be given a membership numbers which you can quote at the first visit to the gym/facility. The facility will then issue a membership card.
Cancelling your membership:
See local authority terms and conditions. If you wish to cancel email gym.application@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or write to Kim Friel (Ledger Manager). However, the loan is for one whole year, if you cancel before the membership is finished you will have to pay the outstanding balance.
OneRen offer a range of memberships to suit all needs. Memberships are provided based on the activities our members choose to access such as gym only, swim only, gym and class or full access. Details on all memberships types can be found via the link below:
Membership can be arranged directly with OneRen, no further NHS discount applicable.
Cancelling your membership:
Renfrewshire membership is arranged directly through OneRen, and is not a loan through NHSGGC. Therefore arranging and cancelling the membership will be done directly through OneRen.
Download the application form from the link above and send the completed form and any enquires to gym.applications@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
We start new memberships on the 1st of each month. Please apply at least 2 weeks before the day you would like your membership to start to allow time to process your application.
Any applications received after this date will be added in to the next month applications.
To activate your membership:
Local authorities vary but usually once the membership is set up you will be given a membership numbers which you can quote at the first visit to the gym/facility. The facility will then issue a membership card.
Cancelling your membership:
See local authority terms and conditions. If you wish to cancel email gym.application@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or write to Kim Friel (Ledger Manager). However, the loan is for one whole year, if you cancel before the membership is finished you will have to pay the outstanding balance.
Food and fluid mythbusters are part of the Food First campaign
The campaign focuses on the importance of food and drink in improving a patient’s recovery and how it can potentially lead to quicker discharge from hospital.
The information is aimed at staff, patients, visitors and family and highlights the role we can all play in patient recovery.
The NHSGGC staff Excellence Awards are looking for patients, visitors and staff to nominate our dedicated teams and individuals. Our staff truly have gone above and beyond in this past year and a half and we want you to tell us about your experience of outstanding care.
These prestigious awards are for individual members of staff, teams, or projects that have identified ways to deliver improvements that benefit patients and service uses, colleagues, or NHSGGC.
Staff, patients and visitors can all nominate in these awards. We want you to tell us about the dedicated teams and individuals who go to extraordinary lengths to provide exceptional care for people who use our health services.
But we’re not just looking to celebrate the tremendous efforts of our staff. We are also looking for services that staff have moulded to patients’ needs, or projects that have transformed the way we work.
There are seven categories in our Excellence Awards, so there is a category to fit every project, programme, or an outstanding member of staff.
Our awards are a brilliant opportunity to shine a light on someone you know, who goes above and beyond the call of duty, to provide exceptional care and support.
We know our staff provide incredible patient care but we need you to tell us your stories.
Our Internal Communications Team communicates news to over 40,000 NHSGGC staff. This is done using a range of digital and physical channels, including the daily Core Briefs.
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.
To access Core Brief, please click on one of the tiles below, or use the search function.
Core Brief – 20 March 2026 (Daily update, 2.10pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include:
• Who will you choose? Learn the stories behind the names for the new home of the FNC+Plus and Virtual Hospital
• The Patient Experience Public Involvement Team – Bitesize Videos Focus Groups
• Drive a new electric or hybrid car with our Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme
Topics in this Core Brief include: NHSGGC earns national recognition for advancing gender equality in the workplace; Reduced Working Week – 13 days to go!; and Training opportunity in British Sign Language (BSL).
Core Brief – 17 March 2026 (Daily update, 12.15pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Update to Retail Catering Prices – From 1 April 2026; Tell us about your Engagement and Involvement work — Overview Report 2025/26; Public Protection Service: New training sessions; and NHSGGC Spiritual Care: First Annual Report 2024-25.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Upcoming Disclosure Scotland changes; PDP&R – Turas Appraisal System Downtime; The NHSGGC Staff Bursary – now live; Supporting staff with time to attend health appointments; and Meet the Patient Experience Public Involvement Team.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Message from the Scottish Government in relation to the recent developments in the Middle East; Get your flu vaccine before the winter programme ends; Reduced Working Week – 20 days to go!; Publication of Polypharmacy Guidance: appropriate prescribing, making medicines safe, effective and sustainable 2026–2029; and Once for Scotland Phase 2.2 Awareness Sessions – Follow up.
In this edition of the Interface update, you’ll find:
• Dive into the data: Virtual Hospital and FNC+Plus
• NHS24 Paediatric Pilot goes live in the Flow Navigation Centre Plus (FNC+Plus)
• Re-name the new home for the Virtual Hospital and FNC+Plus – have your say!
• Pathway Spotlight: Call Before You Convey
• ICYMI: Ask Us Anything responses
Topics in this Core Brief include: Let’s talk about… Tired? Understanding and improving your sleep; Invitation: Virtual Group Consultation for Menopause; Training opportunity – Introduction to Health Literacy – 27 April 2026; World Delirium Awareness Day 2026 is here! and Support for staff who smoke.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Listening to our patients; Stand up against Hate Crime; Have your say on Scottish Government social survey data! and Union Street fire.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Have your say: Help us name the new home for the FNC+Plus and Virtual Hospital; Information Governance and Data Protection Training; Become a Peer Supporter – 2026 Peer Support Training dates; and GGC Medicines Update.
Topics in this Core Brief include:
• Supporting Staff Health and Wellbeing
• Supporting Patient Experience and Involvement: Resources for staff
• Patient Engagement and Public Involvement – Lunchtime Learning Sessions now LIVE!
• International Women’s Day 2026 – ‘Give To Gain’
Topics in this Core Brief include: FOI Guidance Portal on SharePoint; Healthcare Support Worker routes to Pre-Registration Nursing Programme (PRNP) – Applications now open; New e-learning available: GGC: 362 Promoting Attendance; Scottish Quality and Safety Fellowship **APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – Friday 20 March 2026 by 5.00pm**; and Care Home Collaborative – March newsletter.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Reduced Working Week – 28 days to go!; Looking after yourself and others session – Monday 23 March 2.00pm; Public Protection Service: New Learning and Education Training Sessions; and Former NHSGGC Clinical Scientist’s weight loss journey shines a light on Weight Management support.
Topics in this Core Brief include: Changes to MHO Contact Number – Glasgow City; NHSGGC Staff Bursary opens for 2026/27 applications; Supporting Safety, Equality and Career Progression at NHSGGC with the Professional Administration Transformation (PAT) Programme; and Weight Management Service webpage update.
Topics in this Core Brief include:
• Support for staff affected by international events
• eEES Update – AfC Reduced Working Week hours from 1 April 2026
• Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) Continuous Personal Development (CPD) week
• NHSGGC Statement on access to weight loss medications
• Active Bystander Training
• LGBTQ+ Staff Forum hosts Blue Light Event as part of LGBTQ+ History Month
In this edition of the Interface update, you’ll find:
• Virtual Hospital achieves 200 patient milestone
• Pathway Spotlight: Discharge to Scan
• OPAT service open for referrals GGC-wide, thanks to new sites and the FNC+Plus
• New hire on a QUEST to support the Interface Division
Virtual
Core Brief – 25 February 2026 (Daily update, 11.15am)
Topics in this Core Brief include: NHSGGC BankStaff Upgrade: 2 March Planned Upgrade – Downtime 6.00pm – 10.00pm; Staff communication and guidance on implementation of Reduced Working Week (RWW) from 1 April 2026; GGC Medicines Update – GRI Drop in Event; and Allied Health Practitioners (AHP) Healthcare Support Workers celebration.
Core Brief – 24 February 2026 (Daily update, 3.00pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: How important is risk management for NHSGGC? Hear from Director of Finance, Michael Breen; CyberScotland Week 2026; Get ready for our next in-person Copilot events at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Gartnavel General, Stobhill and New Victoria; and Supporting your patients to stop smoking.
Core Brief – 20 February 2026 (Daily update, 1.30pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include:
• System Reset feedback
• National Adult Support and Protection Awareness Day: 20 February 2026
• Medication Safety Forum
• Venous Blood Collection System – Change of Supplier
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