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 November 2024 (Daily update, 11.30am)
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff winter vaccination clinics this weekend and Food, Fluid and Nutrition resources for acute settings.
Core Brief – 15 November 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 6.00pm)
In this issue Jane talks about: e welcomed the Deputy First Minister, Kate Forbes, MSP, and the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport, Maree Todd, MSP, to Leverndale Hospital’s Mother and Baby Unit; Clydebank Health and Care Centre has won two awards at the Building Better Healthcare annual awards ceremony this week; we are working towards achieving Equally Safe at Work accreditation; the launch of the Lifelong Smiles programme; and feedback from a patient in J North and J South staff at IRH.
Core Brief – 14 November 2024 (Daily update, 10.50am)
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff winter vaccination clinics this weekend; Hardship and Wellbeing support for staff; Policy Development Framework; Quality Strategy Newsletter; and Power of Attorney Day 2024 – 21 November 2024.
Core Brief – 13 November 2024 (Daily update, 1.50pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Appeal to staff to ‘Flick that Switch’ and turn lights off when they leave work; Band 5 nurses urged to apply for role re-evaluation; Thinking of retiring – Important changes to SPPA application dates; and Carers Rights Day 2024 – 21 November 2024.
Core Brief – 8 November 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 4.45pm)
In this issue Jane talks about: Congratulates our winners from the Scottish Health Awards; a visit from the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Gregor Smith, to Kirkintilloch Health and Care Centre and the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre; Remembrance Day; highlights that work has begun on the replacement of our Radionuclide Dispensary, following approval to relocate the facility from the old Western Infirmary site to Gartnavel; Occupational Therapy (OT) Week; and patient feedback on the Vale of Leven day surgery unit.
Core Brief – 7 November 2024 (Daily update, 4.15pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: The Health and Care (Staffing)(Scotland) Act 2019; Partial Retirement; and Band 5 nurses urged to apply for role re-evaluation.
Core Brief – 5 November 2024 (Daily update, 4.35pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Chronic Pain Turas Learn Training – for all staff; Care Home Collaborative; and Malnutrition Awareness Week: 11-17 November.
Core Brief – 1 November 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 2.35pm)
In this issue Jane talks about: thanks our fantastic peer immunisers for their tremendous work delivering the flu vaccination to staff; the West Dunbartonshire HSCP Staff Awards; On Wednesday, I met with the Scottish Information Commissioner alongside our Freedom of Information (FOI) team as part of our commitment to the FOI process; and patient feedback on Ward 6C at Gartnavel General Hospital.
Core Brief – 31 October 2024 (Daily update, 12.50pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Band 5 nurses urged to apply for role re-evaluation; Malnutrition Awareness Week: 11-17 November; and Health Literacy Month Conclusion: Ask questions, get better patient.
Core Brief – 30 October 2024 (Daily update, 3.45pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Reduced Working Week hours – eESS Records; Looking after yourself and others – sessions in November; and Online Training Sessions for Abbott FreeStyle Meters (POC Glucose/Ketone).
Core Brief – 28 October 2024 (Daily update, 12.15pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Staff Money Worries Support Campaign 2024; Support for staff affected by International Events; Armed Forces Engagement Sessions – November 2024; and Black History Month: Reclaiming Narratives Event.
Core Brief – 25 October 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 12.00pm)
In this issue Jane talks about: our Annual Review event; managing financial pressures, we need to look at ways to work smarter and maximise our resources; this week, Chair, Dr Lesley Thomson KC hosted Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care at a visit to the Beatson; our Biorepository, based at the QEUH Laboratory Medicine Building, has achieved ISO: 20387:2018 accreditation – the first centre in the UK to achieve such a standard; and patient feedback on the Ophthalmology Clinic at the New Victoria Hospital.
Core Brief – 24 October 2024 (Daily update, 12.45pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Price revision at catering outlets; Invitation to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Annual Review 2023/24; Information Asset Register; To Absent Friends Week (1 – 7 Nov 2024); and Health Literacy Month.
Core Brief – 23 October 2024 (Daily update, 3.40pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Investors in People plaque presented to NHSGGC; Review of Band 5 Nursing Roles; UKHSA Briefing Note; Launch of New NHSGGC Public Protection Service Sharepoint Site; and Roadworks M8 and M898.
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