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 – 15 August 2024 (Daily update, 3.10pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Confidentiality; Mobile vaccination bus offering Pertussis/MMR vaccination – updated address; and Online Training Sessions for Abbott FreeStyle Meters (POC Glucose/Ketone).
Core Brief – 14 August 2024 (Daily update, 1.40pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Password security; Mobile vaccination bus offering Pertussis/MMR vaccination; Peer Support for International Medical Graduates (IMGs); and Mental Health and Stress Awareness – People Management Module.
Core Brief – 12 August 2024 (Daily update, 10.30am)
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Business Email Compromise; 2024 Communications channel audit – Help inform how we communicate with you; Infection Prevention Control newsletter; Management of occupational exposure to blood or body fluids; and Scottish Health Awards 2024.
Core Brief – 9 August 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 4.25pm)
In this issue the Chair, Dr Lesley Thomson KS and Jane offer a statement on the racist riots which have taken place across the UK and outline support available to staff.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Password security; The Transport Helpdesk; Highlight report from the Urgent and Unscheduled Care Oversight Board; and Online Training Sessions for Abbott FreeStyle Meters (POC Glucose/Ketone).
Core Brief – 5 August 2024 (Daily update, 12.10pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Business Email Compromise; NHSGGC Withdrawal of the use of WhatsApp; 2024 Communications channel audit – Help inform how we communicate with you; Workforce Strategy 2025-2030: Tell us what’s important to you; and The Red Day Review process has changed.
Core Brief – 2 August 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 4.45pm)
In this issue Jane talks about: welcoming 277 new junior doctors to NHSGGC; NHSGGC and NHS Lanarkshire holding a joint seminar on taking positive action against Islamophobia; our new taxi and courier booking system; the launch of a Board-wide Medicines Waste campaign; the new Fairer NHSGGC report for 2024-2025; and feedback on the Ward 56 team at GRI.
Core Brief – 1 August 2024 (Daily update, 11.15am)
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Suspicious Communications; The Infection Prevention and Control Quality Improvement Network Newsletter (IPCQIN); Peer Support Training Dates – September – December 2024; and Beatson staff highlight the key role nurses play.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Password security; The Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Programme (HCSSA) web page is now live!; Changes to Taxi and Courier requests from Monday 5 August; and Publication of A Fairer NHSGGC 2024-25.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Supplier Email Compromise; GGC Medicines Update; Active Staff Walking Challenge – Autumn 2024; and Scottish Health Awards 2024.
Topics in this Core Brief: 2024 Communications channel audit – Help inform how we communicate with you; Changes to Taxi and Courier requests from Monday 5 August; Looking after yourself and others – next session 6 August; The Red Day Review process is changing; and Staff Mindfulness Programme – Starting 20 August 2024.
Core Brief – 26 July 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 3.30pm)
In this issue Jane talks about a visit from Drugs and Alcohol Policy Minister, MSP, Christine McKelvie, at the Hunter Street Health Centre; the Communications Directorate has launched a communications audit survey; announce we have issued more than 700 offers of employment to new nursing graduates; he launch of our Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccination campaign; World Hepatitis Day; and feedback from a patient at the Beatson.
Topics in this Core Brief: Whooping Cough vaccine; Band 5 nurse review awareness sessions update; M8 motorway closure; and International medical graduates – Peer support.
Core Brief – 19 July 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 1.10pm)
In this issue Jane talks about this year’s iMatter survey; the number of patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 appears to be declining; encourages relevant staff to take the Whooping Cough (Pertussis) vaccine; the PRIDE parade in Glasgow; encourages Scotland’s Health Awards nominations; and feedback regarding the treatment of patients on Ward 7 at the RAH.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Password security; Community Nursing – new SharePoint site; Needlestick Injury Reduction Group; and Launch of Revised Peripheral Venous Catheter Care Plan.
Core Brief – 12 July 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 4.15pm)
In this issue Jane talks about the rapid response from the Decontamination, Estates and Transport teams, with all other key stakeholders, in finding and implementing a swift solution following unexpected maintenance at the Inverclyde TSSU; congratulates four staff members, Craig Strang, Kate MacLeod, Wendy Mitchell, and Lisa McGoey, who work across Police Custody Healthcare and Archway Glasgow service; Sharps training; and feedback from a family whose son was well looked after at the Royal Hospital for Children.
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