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.
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Topics in this Core Brief: Lateral Flow Test Kits; Social distancing update; Change in testing requirements for recovered COVID-19 patients returning to Care or Residential homes; and Corkerhill Road closure – 19 April.
In this issue Jane talks about: significant pressures due to the number of patients with COVID in our hospitals, essential visiting continues in shared wards at the RAH and GRI, feedback on Ward 57 at the QEUH, ‘Picturing our Workforce: One NHS Family’ photographic exhibition launches, staff picked up four awards at the Scottish Government’s Chief Healthcare Science Officer Awards.
Topics in this Core Brief: Picturing our Workforce: One NHS Family; Do you need help with money worries; and Go green for better health.
Topics in this Core Brief: NHS catering heroes; Bus Service revisions; and Active Staff.
Topics in this Core Brief: The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – Friday 3 June 2022, West of Scotland Rape and Sexual Assault Service – for staff and Complexity and Adversity Network applications now open!
Topics in this Core Brief: Have you had a positive COVID test in the past 10 weeks?, Quality Improvement Fundamentals LearnPro module, eESS (Electronic Employee Support System), National Wellbeing Hub resources and Police Scotland – Cyber Byte.
In this issue Jane talks about: Considerable COVID related challenges, the wearing of face coverings and social distancing, congratulations to staff winning awards and feedback from the Urogynaecology team at the New Victoria.
Topics in this Core Brief: Do you need help with money worries, Realistic Medicine Week, Ramadan, 2 April – 1 May 2022, Update – donations to Ukraine and Clyde Tunnel – cycle and pedestrian route.
Topics in this Core Brief: Public Protection Team, Flying Start portal and Active Staff.
Topics in this Core Brief: Additional LFD kits – correction, Workplace pensions – automatic re-enrolment in March, Ukraine cyber risk and Rescue Extreme Medics – starts tonight!
In this issue Jane talks about: facing significant COVID pressures, unannounced Healthcare Improvement Scotland inspection at QEUH/RHC, Investors in People, Rescue Extreme Medics docu-series, Jonathan Best retires, fantastic feedback about the team at RHC and GRI and QEUH made the top 100 hospitals in the UK.
Three-day unannounced Healthcare Improvement Scotland inspection that has just finished and I wanted to write to thank you for all that you have done to accommodate the inspectors and answer their questions.
Topics in this Core Brief: Please keep testing – Additional LFD kits order process, Workplace Pensions, Current visiting position – update, Our postal services provider is changing and ePayroll system downtime.
Topics in this Core Brief: Occupational Health Psychological Therapies Service, Help your friends and family get the right care for their urgent needs and Caroline Lamb salutes staff effort on lockdown anniversary.
Topics in this Core Brief: Occupational Health Psychological Therapies Service; Realistic Medicine Week; and Covid Sense campaign.
Topics in this Core Brief: Occupational Health Psychological Therapies Service; Quality Improvement Fundamentals LearnPro Module; BME Staff Network meeting; Rescue Extreme Medics – Monday 28 March; and Glasgow City HSCP Health Improvement Annual Report 2020-2021: now available.
In this issue Jane talks about: COVID case continuing to rise, the number of staff absent as a result of COVID, essential visiting introduced in shared wards at GRI and RAH, special thank you to our teams in Community Assessment Centres and positive patient feedback about the Gastroenterology team at the New Victoria Hospital.
Topics in this Core Brief: COVID-19 – Mask wearing and Physical Distancing; Flow Navigation Centre: February in statistics; SLT staff awareness of Dysphagia – a difficult diagnosis to swallow; Clyde Tunnel Maintenance Work; Home Energy Scotland; and Active Staff.
Topics in this Core Brief: New visiting temporary visiting restrictions at GRI and RAH and Today is World Delirium Awareness Day #WDAD2022.
Topics in this Core Brief: Occupational Health – Management Referrals; Our Postal Services Provider is Changing; and Young Carers Action Day – 16 March 2022.
Topics in this Core Brief: Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care visits the RAH; Test & Protect text message scam; Annual Leave Buyback and Carry Over 2021-22; and Become an Activator/ Walk Leader.
In this issue Jane talks about: increase in numbers of patients with COVID in the past week, significant staff absences due to COVID in our hospitals, Ukrainian relief effort, the situation in Ukraine has highlighted the potential for increased cyber-attacks and malware aimed at the public sector, ward 8C at GGH, received some really positive feedback from a relative of an elderly patient this week and an additional annual leave day for staff in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Anniversary.
Topics in this Core Brief: Urgent Call for OSCE4 Examiners & Recruitment of OSCE5 Examiners; Realistic Medicine Week; 5 May 2022 – Election Guidance; Scottish Apprenticeship Week; First Glasgow Bus services; and Active Staff – Guided health and Wellbeing Walk.
This issue of Core Brief includes a special update to South staff on fire and safety regulations at the QEUH.