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.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Business Email Compromise; Speak Up Week 2024; New program for child and family health open for referral; NHSGGC hosts global Antimicrobial Stewardship accreditation inspectors; Care Home Collaborative update; and Prosthetists and Orthotists Awareness Day.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Business Email Compromise; Fighting Flu. It starts with you; eHealth Drop In Sessions and Floor Walking visits; and National Fraud Initiative.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Supplier Email Compromise; Information Governance and Data Protection Advice; Death Certification Review Service new website; and Mental Health Strategy staff engagement.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Password security; Hate Incidents – Support to report in NHSGGC; GGC Medicines Update; Looking after yourself and others – session this Wednesday; Launch of new ‘Money Advice and Support’ app to help staff and patient financial wellbeing.
In this issue Jane talk about Board Members approved the roadmap for our Moving Forward Together clinical strategy, and as part of this, we have a strategic aim to increase our use of virtual consultations where clinically appropriate; The Spinal Injuries Unit at the QEUH held its own ‘Paralympics’ this week, to coincide with the opening ceremony of the Games in Paris; an appeal for Peer Immunisers to help deliver our Autumn/Winter Vaccination programme to staff across NHSGGC; we will soon launch a new monthly ‘Team Talk’; and positive feedback for staff at New Stobhill Hospital’s Dermatology department.
This Core Brief includes an update from the August Board meeting held on 27 August 2024.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Confidentiality and Workforce Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Bulletin.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Supplier Email Compromise; Apply to be a peer immuniser for the staff Autumn/Winter Vaccination Programme; NHSGGC QI Network Event; and Staff Travel Survey.
Topics in this Core Brief: Appointment of new Medical Director.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Business Email Compromise; GGC Medicines update; and Looking after yourself and others – Saturday session on 31 August.
In this issue Jane talks about Jenni Minto MSP, Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health, who visited a range of services within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; attending an event organised by our BME Network to mark South Asian Heritage Month; NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has hit a huge milestone for patient feedback, as we surpassed our 10,000th story on the independent Care Opinion platform; staff, patients and families at the Renal Unit at Inverclyde Royal Hospital had a fantastic day celebrating its 25th year; and positive feedback for staff at the Royal Alexandra Hospital regarding the care of a stroke patient.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Supplier Email Compromise; Keeping our staff safe; and Medical Mentoring Network – New SharePoint site.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Business Email Compromise; iMatter 2024 – every voice matters; Let’s talk about… Communicating with people when they’re distressed; and Staff Travel Survey.
In this issue Jane talks about: a visit from the First Minister, John Swinney MSP, alongside the local Clydebank MSP, Marie McNair, to a vaccination clinic for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV); the annual Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Learning Event at the QEUH; the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry reconvening next week; still time to enter Scotland’s Health Awards 2024 and our Communications Audit survey; and positive feedback for the staff at Lightburn Hospital regarding a patient’s care.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Confidentiality; Mobile vaccination bus offering Pertussis/MMR vaccination – updated address; and Online Training Sessions for Abbott FreeStyle Meters (POC Glucose/Ketone).
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Password security; Mobile vaccination bus offering Pertussis/MMR vaccination; Peer Support for International Medical Graduates (IMGs); and Mental Health and Stress Awareness – People Management Module.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Supplier Email Compromise and Report from the Health and Safety Forum.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Business Email Compromise; 2024 Communications channel audit – Help inform how we communicate with you; Infection Prevention Control newsletter; Management of occupational exposure to blood or body fluids; and Scottish Health Awards 2024.
In this issue the Chair, Dr Lesley Thomson KS and Jane offer a statement on the racist riots which have taken place across the UK and outline support available to staff.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Confidentiality and Reduced Working Week – Part time staff.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Password security; The Transport Helpdesk; Highlight report from the Urgent and Unscheduled Care Oversight Board; and Online Training Sessions for Abbott FreeStyle Meters (POC Glucose/Ketone).
Topics in this Core Brief: NHSGGC – No place for hate.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Supplier Email Compromise and Staff Health Strategy update.
Topics in this Core Brief: Data Security Spotlight – Business Email Compromise; NHSGGC Withdrawal of the use of WhatsApp; 2024 Communications channel audit – Help inform how we communicate with you; Workforce Strategy 2025-2030: Tell us what’s important to you; and The Red Day Review process has changed.