The Pulse September / October 2009 - NHS Lanarkshire
The Pulse September / October 2009 - NHS Lanarkshire
The Pulse September / October 2009 - NHS Lanarkshire
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the<strong>Pulse</strong><br />
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER <strong>2009</strong> GENERAL NEWS<br />
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<strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Lanarkshire</strong> is<br />
undertaking a number of<br />
construction schemes to<br />
improve local healthcare by<br />
providing modern facilities and<br />
services closer to where people live.<br />
Ian Ross, <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Lanarkshire</strong> director<br />
of strategic implementation planning<br />
and performance, said: “<strong>The</strong>se<br />
developments will bring together<br />
modern and innovative design<br />
principles with the aim of delivering<br />
appropriate care in the right place, by<br />
the right staff, to ensure that people<br />
have access to state-of-the-art facilities<br />
and services in their communities.<br />
“We aim to provide facilities that<br />
enable us to provide the best quality<br />
of care and a positive experience for<br />
our patients.”<br />
Building<br />
a better<br />
CAIRD HOUSE: how the mental<br />
health residential care centre on<br />
the site of Beckford Lodge will look<br />
future for everyone<br />
Coatbridge<br />
THE £13.66-million development<br />
in Main Street, Coatbridge, is<br />
celebrating the latest milestone as<br />
the tower crane is removed from<br />
the site.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new 8,000m 2 facility – due for<br />
completion next spring – is a joint<br />
venture between <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Lanarkshire</strong><br />
and North <strong>Lanarkshire</strong> Council.<br />
<strong>The</strong> development will<br />
incorporate two dental practices,<br />
a dental outreach centre, two GP<br />
surgeries and a community health<br />
department.<br />
It will also provide a one-stop<br />
shop for a number of North<br />
<strong>Lanarkshire</strong> Council’s agencies,<br />
including a public library and a<br />
registrar’s office.<br />
Ian Ross, <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Lanarkshire</strong><br />
director of strategic implementation<br />
planning and performance, said:<br />
“This centre will be a tremendous<br />
addition to the town centre allowing<br />
people to access a wide range of<br />
health and council services in<br />
one location.”<br />
Airdrie<br />
PLANS to develop a £27-million<br />
state-of-the-art health centre,<br />
offices and retail properties in<br />
Airdrie’s town centre were given the<br />
go-ahead by North <strong>Lanarkshire</strong><br />
Council’s planning department.<br />
Permission was granted to<br />
develop the vacant Somerfield<br />
CENTRAL SERVICES: the Coatbridge<br />
development is due for completion<br />
next spring<br />
supermarket site and adjoining sixstorey<br />
office block on Graham Street<br />
in the town centre. Councillors<br />
agreed that the busy new health<br />
centre would contribute to the<br />
success of the town centre.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ground floor will house four<br />
retail units, including a pharmacy<br />
and social work offices, while the<br />
upper three floors will be used by<br />
nine different GP practices and a<br />
number of primary care services,<br />
serving almost 30,000 patients from<br />
across the town.<br />
Ian Ross said: “This marks a<br />
significant step forward in the<br />
development of the new health<br />
<strong>NHS</strong> community health<br />
educators have launched a DVD<br />
to highlight the importance of<br />
breast and cervical screening<br />
among women in South Asian<br />
communities.<br />
It explains how breast and<br />
cervical screening is organised,<br />
what is involved and the benefits<br />
associated with screening.<br />
centre which will provide access to a<br />
wider range of health services in a<br />
modern, purpose-built facility, for<br />
the people of Airdrie.<br />
“This demonstrates the ongoing<br />
investment by <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Lanarkshire</strong> in<br />
local health care services.”<br />
Learning Disabilities Assessment<br />
and Treatment Centre<br />
CONSTRUCTION of the Learning<br />
Disabilities Assessment and<br />
Treatment Centre at Kirklands is<br />
under way.<br />
<strong>The</strong> £7.3-million development,<br />
which will open next summer,<br />
will provide a modern 12 bed<br />
Anila Ansari, community<br />
health educator, said: “<strong>The</strong> idea<br />
for the DVD came about<br />
following a recommendation<br />
from a focus group of Asian<br />
women. It is often the case that<br />
issues such as breast and<br />
cervical screening are not<br />
discussed among Asian women<br />
and families.”<br />
inpatient facility and outpatient<br />
therapies and clinics, as part of an<br />
integrated Learning Disabilities<br />
Community Service.<br />
<strong>The</strong> development was planned<br />
and designed with input from<br />
service users, relatives and staff and<br />
will be a flagship development<br />
within <strong>NHS</strong> <strong>Lanarkshire</strong>, giving the<br />
opportunity to develop new models<br />
of care.<br />
Caird House<br />
WORK is progressing well with the<br />
new Caird House metal health<br />
residential care centre in Hamilton.<br />
It is being created on the site<br />
<strong>The</strong> DVD, which is in Urdu,<br />
was developed in conjunction<br />
with, and stars, women from the<br />
focus group.<br />
It has English subtitles so that<br />
the information is accessible to<br />
English-speaking women.<br />
Anila added: “<strong>The</strong> DVD aims to<br />
overcome the communication<br />
barriers and myths that surround<br />
of Beckford Lodge, in Caird<br />
Street, next to the existing Caird<br />
House building.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new centre will have a total of<br />
27 beds – 12 complex needs beds<br />
and 15 low secure care beds.<br />
This total includes 10 beds<br />
currently in the existing Caird<br />
House building, which has<br />
provided assessment, treatment<br />
and rehabilitation for adults with<br />
a wide range of complex mental<br />
health needs service since 1998.<br />
<strong>The</strong> old Beckford Lodge building<br />
has now been demolished and work<br />
has begun on the new development.<br />
All design development work is now<br />
completed and the project is<br />
currently ahead of schedule.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new facility is a key part of<br />
the <strong>Lanarkshire</strong> Mental Health<br />
Strategy which has been developed<br />
in partnership with South<br />
<strong>Lanarkshire</strong> Council, voluntary<br />
organisations and other<br />
stakeholders.<br />
<strong>The</strong> strategy focuses on recovery,<br />
recognising that most people with<br />
mental health problems can and do<br />
get better.<br />
<strong>The</strong> development at the Beckford<br />
Lodge site is due to open in<br />
December 2010.<br />
Further updates on all the capital<br />
development projects will appear<br />
in future issues of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Pulse</strong>, so watch<br />
this space.<br />
Women get the message on DVD<br />
screening for Asian women and<br />
have a positive impact in<br />
screening uptakes.”<br />
To request a copy of the DVD, or<br />
for more general information<br />
about the community health<br />
educators, contact Anila Ansari on<br />
01698 744220.