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 – 8 March 2024 (Chief Executive, 11.30am)
In this issue Jane talks about: International Women’s Day 2024, Scottish Apprentice Week, West of Scotland Thrombectomy Service, Public Health Staff Awards, congratulations to staff with 50 years service and this week’s patient feedback is regarding the Fracture Clinic at the IRH.
Topics in this Core Brief: Management of occupational exposure to blood or body fluids; HR Support and Advice Unit; and NHS Scotland Event 2024 – call for posters now open.
Topics in this Core Brief: Supporting colleagues and patients during Ramadan; Scottish Apprenticeship Week – 4-8 March 2024; and Quality Strategy Development Newsletter.
Core Brief – 1 March 2024 (Chief Executive, 1.50pm)
In this issue Jane talks about: Board member visits to services, Staff Health Strategy, the ongoing care and support our team at the Royal Hospital for Children (RHC) has been able to provide to a baby & patient feedback this week is from a day surgery patient at Gartnavel General Hospital.
Core Brief – 1 March 2024 (Report from the February Board meeting, 10.35)
Report from February meeting of the NHSGGC Board
The Board of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde met on Tuesday, 27 February 2024. The full set of papers are here. This summary sets out key decisions and issues considered at the meeting.
Core Brief – 27 February 2024 (Chief Executive, 5.05pm)
In this issue Jane talks about: Following discussion at today’s Board Meeting in relation to the ongoing situation in the Middle East, I would like to reinforce NHSGGC’s collective concern for all those impacted either directly or indirectly by the conflict.
Core Brief – 27 February 2024 (Daily update, 10am)
Topics in this Core Brief: Freedom of Information – new procedures, Patient Feedback and Involvement lunchtime learning sessions – new dates announced & Let’s talk about… Staff Wellbeing Webinars: February-April 2024.
Core Brief – 23 February 2024 (Chief Executive, 3.10pm)
In this edition Jane Grant talks about: newly updated Reasonable Adjustment Guidance, National Mental Health Nurses Day, first consultant pharmacist in Scotland appointed for the West of Scotland Cancer network, quick thinking and fast action from one of our staff at the QEUH helped another colleague avoid potential severe damage, two members of staff celebrate 50 years of service & our patient feedback comes from from a family of an RAH patient.
Core Brief – 22 February 2024 (Daily update, 11.45am)
Topics in this Core Brief: Entonox Gas Generic Risk Assessment Review; eESS message for managers; and Introducing new a new falls resource for acute inpatient services.
Core Brief – 16 February 2024, 3.35pm (Chief Executive)
In this issue Jane talks about: Welcoming our new Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, Neil Gray MSP, to the QEUH, congratulations to the Clyde Cluster Workforce Group and all Clyde staff involved in securing Investors In People (IiP) accreditation this week, one of our patients, Mia Scott, who has secured a cap for Scotland’s national youth football team, 2,000 stories and pieces of feedback from patients and families through Care Opinion, Excellence Awards & feedback from a patient regarding their experience at Stobhill Ambulatory Care Hospital.
Core Brief – 15 February 2024 (Daily update, 1.15pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Watch Your Waste; Lateral Flow Tests (LFTs) – Changes to COVID Testing Guidance; and Let’s talk about… Staff Wellbeing Webinars: February – April 2024.
Core Brief – 13 February 2024 (Daily update, 12.40pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: Excellence Awards; Launch of falls strategy and guidelines; Quality Strategy Development Newsletter; and We would like your feedback on the winter 2023 vaccination programme.
Core Brief – 9 February 2024 (Message from Jane Grant, Chief Executive, 11.50am)
In this issue Jane talks about: the current situation remaining challenging, with high occupancy rates across acute sites; a decrease in the number of COVID and influenza patients in our hospitals; thanks our immunisation team; two of our nurses who have become the first within NHSGGC to qualify as registered colposcopists; congratulates Inverclyde HSCP, which has been awarded a Gold Level Two Digital Telecare Implementation award; and shares patient feedback from the QEUH.
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