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 – 28 January 2026 (Daily update, 4.55pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: GGC Medicines Update; Civility Saves Lives – Online Champions Training – 2026 Schedule; and Ramadan 2026 – Supporting our Muslim Patients and Colleagues.
Core Brief – 27 January 202^ (Daily update, 3.50pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Your voice continues to shape our future: NHSGGC Staff Experience Boardwide Action Plan 2025-26; Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Z Card; and Public Protection Service: New Learning and Education Training Sessions.
Core Brief – 26 January 2026 (Daily update, 3.20pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Staff communication and guidance on implementation of Reduced Working Week (RWW) from 1 April 2026; Have Your Say – Shaping our Internal Communications and Employee Engagement Strategy; and Changes to MHO Contact Number – Glasgow City.
Core Brief – 22 January 2026 (Daily update, 1.40pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Drive a new electric or hybrid car with the Salary Sacrifice Car Benefit Scheme; Collaborative Conversations: Shaping Our Learning Culture Together; Acute Childhood Non Routine Referral Pathway – TrakCare; and Let’s Talk Practice Education – ePAD.
Core Brief – 21 January 2026 (Daily update, 3.00pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Civility Saves Lives – Online Champions Training – 2026 Schedule; Let’s Talk About… Your Vital 5: Everyday Choices That Keep You Well; Unlock Your Potential – Explore Management Development Opportunities; Evaluating impact – Adora’s researchers need to hear from you; and Scottish Gas Networks, Great Western Road area (Anniesland Cross).
Core Brief – 20 January 2026 (System Reset update, 9.20am)
This issue of Core Brief includes and update on System Reset 2, running from 17 January – 28 January. This issue also highlights New Patient Pathways at GRI.
Core Brief – 19 January 2026 (Daily update, 1.45pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Combat Blue Monday with our World Kindness Day heroes; Get ready for our in-person Copilot Event at the Teaching and Learning Centre on the QEUH Campus; Medusa Monographs – new website; and Nominations are now open for the Chief Scientific Officer’s Award.
Core Brief – 16 January 2026 (System Reset update, 12.00pm)
System Reset 2 will run from tomorrow (Saturday 17th January) through to Wednesday 28th January. Our collective efforts are vital as we work together to maintain safe and effective patient care. This Core Brief features a message from Chief Executive Professor Jann Gardner.
System Reset 2 will run from Saturday 17th January through to Wednesday 28th January. Our collective efforts are vital as we work together to maintain safe and effective patient care. This update features a message from Medical Director Dr Scott Davidson.
Core Brief – 14 January 2026 (Daily update, 11.00am)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Public Protection Service: New Learning and Education Training Sessions; Let’s Talk About… Staff Wellbeing Webinars – Bite-Sized Support, Big Impact; and First Glasgow – service revisions.
Core Brief – 13 January 2025 (Daily update, 3.30pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Coming soon – The Car Salary Sacrifice Benefit Scheme; Reporting and Managing Data Breaches; Peer Support Training Dates; and New Year, New Me, Smokefree.
Core Brief – 13 January 2026 (System Reset update, 12.10pm)
This Core Brief focuses on System Reset 2 that will run from Saturday 17th January through to Wednesday 28th January. Our collective efforts are vital as we work together to maintain safe and effective patient care.
Core Brief – 9 January 2025 (Daily update, 3.10pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include:
• Resident Doctor Industrial Action
• eEES Update – AfC Reduced Working Week hours from 1 April 2026
• Active Staff – Classes start back on Monday 12 January
Core Brief – 8 January 2026 (Daily update, 3.40pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Have Your Say – Shaping our Internal Communications and Employee Engagement Strategy; Listening to our patients; and M8, Hillington Interchange – Major Bridge Refurbishment.
Core Brief – 7 January 2026 (Daily update, 2.20pm)
Topics in this Core Brief include: Hear from Head of Health and Safety Freddie Warnock on the importance of Risk Management in keeping us all safe at work; and Do you need advice or support to carry out patients or public feedback or engagement activities?
Core Brief – 23 December 2025 (Message from Dr Lesley Thomson KC, Chair and Professor Jann Gardner, Chief Executive, 11.55am)
NHSGGC Board Chair, Dr Lesley Thomson KC, and Chief Executive, Professor Jann Gardner, share festive messages and their thanks for 2025 with colleagues.
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