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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In this issue Jane talks about: It’s awards season and we have picked up quite a few recently – three at the Scottish Health Awards, two at the UK-wide Building Better Healthcare Awards, two awards at the NHS Scotland Assure Awards yesterday and Alison Bunce, who recently won the highly prestigious RCN Nurse of the Year Award, Right Care, Right Place public awareness campaign launched & patient feedback on a podiatry clinic.
Topics in this Core Brief: Mental Health in the Workplace Webinar – A Guide for Managers (2hrs); Reporting salaries correctly; Remember, remember the 5th of November – Be Fire Safe; National rail disruption; and Active Staff.
Topics in this Core Brief: Let’s talk about… Staff Wellbeing Webinars (20 minutes); Active Staff – Morning Mobility; and Withdrawal of Royal Mail Strike Action.
Topics in this Core Brief: Face mask update for staff who work with individuals in their own homes, Updated standard infection control precautions audit tool on CAIR dashboard, Sip Till Send – Simple, Safe, Kind, Staff Health and Wellbeing Survey extended until Friday 4 November, Our postal services have changed & Upcoming postal disruption.
Report from October meeting of the NHSGGC Board
In this issue Jane talks about: increase in staff abuse, winter vaccination programme, visit by Minister for Drugs Policy, to the new recovery hub, CIRCLE, NHSGGC recorded as a “high-performing board” in NISR annual review, Black History Month & feedback from a patient who received treatment from the Endoscopy team at Stobhill.
Topics in this Core Brief: AHP Healthcare Support Workers – learning and development opportunities; BSL Online Interpreting Service; HEPMA Business Continuity; Evening webinar – Frailty and Polypharmacy; and Active Staff – New online class.
Topics in this Core Brief: Lateral Flow Device testing kits; Festive Pay Dates; NHSGGC/HSCP Staff Survey – SG Mental Health & Wellbeing Workforce Strategy Engagement; Reporting salaries correctly; and Meet your administration colleagues – updated links.
Topics in this Core Brief: Armed Forces Information Sessions; Staff Health and Wellbeing Survey; Meet your administration colleagues; and National rail disruption.
Topics in this Core Brief: Upcoming Postal Disruption; IPCNQI Newsletter – fourth issue; Innovation Fellows; Staff Disability Forum November Meeting; and Black History Month 2022.
In this issue Jane talks about: unannounced visit at IRH, Public Health Scotland information on patients waiting longer than two years. HEPMA successful roll out, NHSGGC has nine shortlisted nominees for the 2022 Scottish Health Awards & feedback on our Orthopaedics team at GRI.
Topics in this Core Brief: Have you had your COVID-19 booster and flu vaccinations yet?
Topics in this Core Brief: Fire Safety Training; National Uniforms – Changes to pack sizes. Garments affected – tunics, polos and cargo trousers; NHSGGC Flying Start NQP Signifier Badge; SPPA – McCloud Remedy Calculator now available; GGC Medicines Update; Patient Feedback and Involvement Lunchtime Learning Sessions: and Innovation Survey.
Topics in this Core Brief: Moving Forward Together – Implementation Strategy workshops underway; Welfare Support for Armed Forces Veterans; Registered Nursing and Midwifery Induction; Staff Health and Wellbeing Survey; and Reporting salaries correctly.
Topics in this Core Brief: Violence and Aggression – Additional dates and venues for training are now available; Data Sharing Guidance; Successful completion of Phase 1 of HEPMA; and Armed Forces Information Sessions.
Topics in this Core Brief: Have you booked your vaccine(s) yet?; NMC Interface; Black History Month 2022; ScotRail disruption; and Upcoming Postal Disruption.
In this issue Jane talks about: Major Trauma Centre team at the QEUH and RHC visit from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Humza Yousaf MSP, Rescue: Extreme Medics docuseries has been nominated for a Scottish BAFTA, two of our Neurosciences staff pick up award at the Association of Neuroscience Nurses (BANN) Annual Conference, COVID and flu vaccination programme is well underway & feedback about the IBD team at the RAH.
Topics in this Core Brief: Statutory Mandatory Training – Sharps; Allied Health Professions Day 2022; Managing your Money Better online sessions; Ensuring eligible pensioners receive second Cost of Living Payment; and Free anxiety and insomnia therapy apps for staff.
Topics in this Core Brief: Reminder: FRSMs should be worn at all times in all clinical areas; Armed Forces Information Sessions; Staff Health and Wellbeing Survey; Reporting salaries correctly; and Seasons of Change, Autumn 2022 – Another chance to reflect on loss, grief and bereavement.
Topics in this Core Brief: Speak Up!; Fire Incidents – Staff Reporting Datix: Key Message; Pledge to be Seen; iMatter 2022 – every voice matters; and To Absent Friends – A Festival of Remembrance.
Topics in this Core Brief: World Mental Health Day; Lateral Flow Device testing kits; New Porter Task Management System; Health and Safety Face Fit Tester Training; and Upcoming Postal Disruption.
In this issue Jane talks about: system pressures, welcoming a record 700 Newly Qualified Nurses (NQNs) and Midwives, launch of our Speak Up! campaign, thank you to our procurement colleagues, Moving Forward Together (MFT) Strategy & feedback from the parent of two young patients who received treatment at the RAH Emergency Department.
Topics in this Core Brief: A record 700 graduate nurses join NHSGGC; Have you booked your COVID-19 booster and flu vaccinations yet?; Our postal services have changed; and Black History Month 2022.
Topics in this Core Brief: Speak Up! We are listening; No Smoking Perimeter; Challenge Poverty Week – Ask About Money Worries; and Reporting salaries correctly.