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. The award ceremony will take place Friday 30 October 2026.
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 nine 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 August 2026 (Daily update, 4.15pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Clinical Guidelines Week returns this September, 14 – 18 September; William Cullen Prize; and A celebration of excellence in Obstetrics and Gynaecology training.
Core Brief – 18 August 2026 (Daily update, 2.00pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Spotlight on Discharge Without Delay: Daily DwD Board Rounds; Senior Adaptive Leadership Academy: applications now open; and Civility Saves Lives – Online Champions Training – 2026 Schedule.
Core Brief – 17 August 2026 (Daily update, 2.30pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Have you used the NHSGGC.SCOT Website Support Hub on SharePoint?; WestCAP brings multidisciplinary teams together to improve limb salvage; and Quality Strategy newsletter.
In this edition of the Interface Update, you’ll find:
• Hear Gillyanne’s story, one of our Virtual Hospital patients
• What is the Virtual Hospital? Pauline Grose, Interface Clinical Director, tells us more
• Opportunity to join the team – Advanced Emergency Nurse Practitioner
Core Brief – 13 August 2026 (Daily update, 3.30pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Patient Experience Public Involvement Teams Lunchtime Learning Sessions; Let’s Talk About… Managing People, Managing Pressure: Wellbeing for Managers; and Bringing healthcare innovation to life during Glasgow Tech Week.
Core Brief – 12 August 2026 (Daily update, 2.15pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Faces of Primary Care: GP Practice Pharmacists; National Maternity Early Warning System (MEWS) Implementation across NHSGGC; and Estates & Facilities Staff Hub.
Core Brief – 11 August 2026 (Daily update, 3.15pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Spotlight on Discharge Without Delay: Visible Discharge Planning; EWBL-P 2026/27 – funded development opportunity for Band 5 nurses and midwives; and Civility Spotlight – discover what the team in Specialist Children’s Services are doing to promote civility.
Core Brief – 10 August 2026 (Daily update, 4.50pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: New Blood Glucose & Ketone Monitoring System to be introduced across NHSGGC; William Cullen Prize; and NHSGGC International Medical Graduate Induction – 21 August 2026.
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Safe Information Handling and Training
• Primary Care Peer Supporter Training Day
• iMatter 2026: Turning Feedback into Action
• Listening to our patients
• Your stories from the Commonwealth Games – part two!
Topics in this Core Brief: My Health – Living Well with Long Term Conditions Service; Spotlight on Discharge Without Delay; Peer Support training dates- available spaces in August; and Care Home Collaborative – August newsletter.
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Three weeks left to submit your nominations for Scotland’s Health Awards 2026
• Shaping our culture together
• National Wellness Month: Take 45 minutes for you
• Erskine Bridge closure: 7 – 10 August 2026
Topics in this Core Brief:
• The Green Brief – the new sustainability newsletter
• GGC Medicines Update
• Reporting adverse events – medical and diagnostic device incidents
• Save the Date: Clinical Guidelines Week returns this September (14 – 18 September 2026)
Topics in this Core Brief:
• One small thing to make our workplace kinder – respectful communication and manners
• Back-to-school sleep reset
• Celebrating your stories from the Commonwealth Games so far!
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Get ready for the public launch of My Health
• Update to Transmission Based Precautions (TBPs) guidance within the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual (NIPCM)
• Quality Improvement (QI) Network event: Thursday 10 September
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Today marks World Hepatitis Day – discover how you can play your part
• What does a safe and respectful team feel like? An insight into our iMatter action planning
• NHSGGC Mouth Care Guideline for Adults
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Non-Executive Board Members visit Inverclyde Royal Hospital
• International Self-Care Day (24 July) – The ABC of Self-Care
• Senior Adaptive Leadership Academy: information sessions and more information
• MenB vaccination programme – importance of young people getting both doses
• HCSSA – Real Time Staffing and Risk Escalation Quiz
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Final days to submit your entry to this year’s Excellence Awards
• Lightburn Tearoom reopens to welcome staff, patients and visitors
• MAP of Health Behaviour Change Training – new sign-up link
• Commonwealth Games (23 July – 2 August 2026) – travel information
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Transmission Based Precautions (TBPs) Guidance is Changing – CORRECTION
• Zero HIV Stigma Day on 21 July – sign up for HIV Informed webinars
• Treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) – Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) of choice switch to enoxaparin
• Acute Volunteering Third Sector Strategic Oversight Forum – Join the conversation
Core Brief – 17 July 2026 (Report from the June Board meeting, 12.40pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Chair’s Report from Board Meeting on 25 June 2026, Cheif Executive’s Update, Safety and Public Confidence Oversight Group, Patient story – Volunteers’ Week, Transforming Together, Research and innovation – PHOENIX trial, HIS Review updates, Annual Delivery Plan, Cancer deep dive and Whistleblowing.
Topics in this Core Brief: Transmission Based Precautions (TBPs) Guidance is Changing; MAP (Motivation, Action, Prompts) of Health Behaviour Change Training; and Sign up now: Healthcare Science Annual Event 2026 – Leadership Through Change and Innovation.
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