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 May 2026 (Daily update, 11.30am)
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Looking After Yourself and Others Session – Friday 15 May at 1.00pm
• Listening to our patients
• Staff Parking Reminder – Bus stops and bus lanes
Topics in this Core Brief: Medical and Dental – Consultant Grade Discretionary Points; How we care for our service users, and each other – celebrating the first year of Leading the Way; and Beatson publishes new information videos to help cancer patients feel more prepared and less anxious.
Topics in this Core Brief: New Clinical Leadership ‘Spotlights’ for Nursing and Midwifery; Working with External Organisations which involve Volunteers – Formal Agreements Required; and NHS Scotland Event 2026 – Call for posters now open!
Topics in this Core Brief: iMatter – launching soon; Fraud Awareness: Summary of learning themes and real life examples of fraud – Part 1; Realistic Medicine module to complete by end of May 2026; and Weekend Closure: M8 Junction 26 Westbound Off-Slip Road.
Topics in this Core Brief: Bench unveiled at Royal Alexandra Hospital to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day; Staff security reminder: ID and suspicious items; New podcast: Why Cut it Out and Equally Safe at Work (ESaW) matter; and Values Based Reflective Practice® – Essential Toolkit Training.
Topics in this Core Brief: Return to Practice Guidance – Career Grade Medical Staff; Staff Parking Reminder – Pavement parking; and NHS Scotland Event 2026 – Call for posters now open!
Topics in this Core Brief: How We Assure Quality of Care: Strengthening Standards in Year One of Leading the Way; Chris Sanderson, Director of Procurement to take up new role with Public Services Delivery Scotland; and Active Staff Spring 2026 Walking Challenge – Starts on Friday!
Core Brief – 27 April 2026 (Daily update, 11.20am)
Topics in this Core Brief: Share examples of work shaped by patient and public views – NHSGGC Overview Report 2025/26; Last chance to have your say on kindness and civility at work in our quick survey; Week 5 – Catch Your Breath Sessions; The Patient Experience Public Involvement Team – Bitesize Videos Focus Groups; and World Hand Hygiene Day 2026.
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Recording and Reporting Data Breach Incidents
• Introduction to Copilot Standard for NHSGGC Staff
• Launch: Looking After Yourself and Others – Updated eLearning (GGC 277 on LearnPro
• Use of Meta Smart Glasses on NHS Premises – guidance for staff
In this edition of the Interface Update, you’ll find:
• So, what is the FNC+ and Virtual Hospital? And why should you care?
• From trainee to ANP: discover how Jen worked her way up into an Advanced Nurse Practitioner role, and how you could do the same
• Curious about the work of the Interface team? Ask us anything at our upcoming session
• Opportunities to join the team
Core Brief – 22 April 2026 (Daily update, 10.50am)
Topics in this Core Brief: Celebrating our admin colleagues on National Administrative Professionals Day! A message from our Chief Executive; Staff Parking Reminder – Blue Badge Spaces; The Green Brief – the new sustainability newsletter; and 2025/26 Annual Appraisal for Medical & Dental Staff – Completion Reminder.
Topics in this Core Brief: Your chance to learn about the work of the Interface team, and ask them anything; Everything you need to know about NHS Scotland’s National Digital Type 2 Diabetes Remission Programme – and expanded access to local Remission pathway; Patient Experience Public Involvement: Tools, Resources, and Support; and Civility Saves Lives – Online Champions Training – 2026 Schedule.
Topics in this Core Brief: Fraud Awareness Module; Kindness and civility at work – have your say in our two-minute survey; GGC Medicines Update; and NHSGGC Quality Strategy Newsletter.
Core Brief – 17 April 2026 (Daily update, 10.40am)
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Senior leadership appointments at NHSGGC
• Two NHSGGC hospitals recognised among the UK’s leading healthcare providers
• Staff Parking Reminder – Restricted Areas
• The NHSGGC Staff Bursary – 1-week to go
• Public Protection Service – New Public Protection Training Sessions
Topics in this Core Brief: Workforce Systems – Bulk Upload Complete; Change to structure of Facilities Management team; Week 4 – Catch Your Breath Sessions; and Drive a new electric or hybrid car with our Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme.
Core Brief – 14 April 2026 (Daily update, 11.15am)
Topics in this Core Brief: How We Develop Our Professions: A Year of Progress under Leading the Way; 2025/26 Annual Appraisal for Medical & Dental Staff – Completion Reminder; Have you completed the Realistic Medicine module?; eHealth changes name to Digital Services; and April is Stress Awareness Month.
Core Brief – 13 April 2026 (Daily update, 12.20pm)
Topics in this Core Brief: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde achieves Carer Positive Exemplary Accreditation; NHSGGC AHP Education Fund now open; Patient Experience Public Involvement: Tools, Resources, and Support; Kindness and civility at work – have your say; and Week 3 – Catch Your Breath Sessions.
Core Brief – 10 April 2026 (Daily update, 12.00pm)
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Digital Type 2 Diabetes Remission Programme – Information for Staff
• New Starts Collaborative Conversations
• Use of AI Tools
• Lets Talk about…. Psychological Safety: What is it and how can I get it?
• Care Home Collaborative – April newsletter
• Meet the Head Injury Acute Rehab Team
In this edition of the Interface Update, you’ll find:
• What do patients think of the FNC+?
• Discover how the work of ED consultants in the FNC+ benefits the whole system
• ED consultants join QUEST
• ICYMI: Ask the Interface Team Anything
• Opportunities to join the team
Topics in this Core Brief: Recording and Transcribing Meetings; Duty of Candour Policy; Public Protection Service – New Public Protection Training Sessions; Changes to training opportunity in British Sign Language (BSL); and The Infection Prevention and Control Quality Improvement Network Newsletter (IPCQIN).
Topics in this Core Brief: 2025/26 Annual Appraisal for Medical & Dental Staff – Completion Reminder; Looking after yourself and others session – Wednesday 22 April; New core module for GGC staff – fraud awareness; Catch up on the latest Quality Improvement Network event; and NHSGGC R&I Conference coming this June – Better Care, Brighter Future.
Topics in this Core Brief:
• Reduced Working Week (RWW) now live – 1 April 2026
• Sign up for another chance to ask the Interface team anything
• How We Lead: Reflecting on our First Year of the Leading the Way Nursing and Midwifery Strategy
• Looking After Yourself and Others Session – Wednesday 22nd April
• MAP of Health Behaviour Change Training opportunity
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