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IF ANYONE WAS TO DOUBT THAT THERE WERE MAJOR MOVES BEING MADE IN HEALTHCARE IN SCOTLAND, YOU ONLY NEED TO LOOK AT NHS LANARKSHIRE…..
EXCELLENT MOVES…. ACROSS THE BOARD IN LANARKSHIRE
TWO DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS WERE LEFT HEARTBROKEN RECENTLY WHEN A FOUNTAIN USED IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE WITH DEMENTIA WAS DESTROYED BY VANDALS.
Matt Muircroft and Bill Bulloch spend their spare time carefully tending to Motherwell’s ‘Living well with Dementia garden’ to say thank you to NHS Lanarkshire’s memory service nursing staff, for the care given to their late wives, Julie and Isobell.
The specialist garden, which can be found at the back of NHS Lanarkshire’s Airbles Road Centre, provides a safe stimulating environment for those living with dementia and their carers within the local community.
The nursing team provided the inspiration and design for the garden and sourced funding to see the project through to completion.
‘Julie and I were born 40 minutes apart at the same hospital,’ Matt told SP, ‘so we shared the same birthday.
On our birthday and our anniversary, I would go to the garden and attach yellow balloons to the fountain. When I would leave for the day, I would let the balloons go and watch them as they would fl oat up to the sky and out of sight.
‘One Saturday afternoon, my daughter brought me down so we could put some more water in the fountain. She said she would go and do it if I could sit in the car with the baby. She came back crying and told me that the water feature had been vandalised.’
Thanks to a donation from kind- hearted staff at Gouldings Garden Centre,’ Matt added, ‘an identical fountain was erected, in time for Dementia Awareness Week. We felt responsible for that fountain, so went to Gouldings to see if we could buy a new one. We saw an identical one to the one that had been vandalised and the manager from the Garden Centre said that he would like to donate it to the garden.’
A WIDE RANGE OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING PROJECTS WAS SHOWCASED RECENTLY AT A DOORS OPEN EVENT IN LOCKHART HOSPITAL COMMUNITY HUB.
The event, organised by Healthy Valleys and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership (SLH&SCP), included interactive sessions to give people the chance to get some hands-on learning about healthy lifestyles – including food tasting and memory tests.
Supports and services in the spotlight ranged from stop smoking, the Reconnect project (which aims to reduce loneliness and isolation) to health improvement and much more.
‘Our aim at Healthy Valleys,’ said Executive manager of Healthy Valleys, Lesley McCranor, ‘is to reduce health inequalities and promote positive lifestyle change in rural South Lanarkshire communities. We were delighted to welcome the many people who came along to our event to fi nd out about the services we provide. The objective of these services is not only to help people to lead healthier lives now, but to help avoid ill-health in later years.
PRECONCEPTION HEALTH AND CARE ANIMATION
Everyone knows that it’s important that both parents are healthy prior to becoming pregnant. That’s the key message in a new NHS Lanarkshire animation which promotes preconception health and care.
The ‘Health b4 Pregnancy’ animation was produced by NHS Lanarkshire, in partnership with North Lanarkshire Youth Work, young people from youth forums and learning hubs, as well as support staff. It was funded by the maternal and infant nutrition team.
‘Health b4 Pregnancy’ promotes planning pregnancy, avoiding unplanned pregnancies, and making informed choices. It gives people the knowledge to make those choices and arms them with the information they need.
CROY RESIDENTS INVITED TO GIVE VIEWS ON PHARMACY APPLICATION
Residents in Croy are being invited to give their views on whether they feel they have adequate access to pharmacy services in their area.
The exercise is part of a joint consultation between NHS Lanarkshire and CD Chem Ltd as it would like to apply to NHS Lanarkshire to open a new pharmacy, offering a full range of NHS pharmaceutical services, at 4 McSparran Road, Croy, G65 9HN during the hours of Monday to Friday, 9am-6pm and Saturday, 9am-1pm.
Pictured (l-r): Matt Muircroft, Bill Bullock and David Muircroft. 22 - SCOTTISH PHARMACIST
Before an application can be made, regulations require that NHS Lanarkshire and CD Chem Ltd carry out a joint consultation to seek the views of local people on whether they feel they already have adequate access
to pharmacy services in the area and gauge the level of support for the proposal.
All views submitted to the survey will be incorporated into a Consultation Analysis Report which will be taken into account by NHS Lanarkshire’s Pharmacy Practices Committee (PPC) which decides the outcome of such applications.
To take part in the consultation, ask your patients to visit the NHS Lanarkshire website at: http://www2.
nhslanarkshire.org.uk/Involved/ consultation/pharmacy-consultation/ Pages/
Croy.aspx
The consultation runs until 7 September 2017.
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