Case for building Scotland’s first deep geothermal heating plant grows as NHS Grampian calls for partnership approach. www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/november/case-for-building-scotlands-first-deep-geothermal-heating-plant-grows-as-nhs-grampian-calls-for-partnership-approach @townrock.bsky.social

Congratulations Kathleen - also a valued Non-Executive on the Board of @nhsgrampian.bsky.social

Pleased to attend the @NHSGrampian.bsky.social #Psychology All Staff Conference this month. Great to experience a Schwartz round at the start, a real focus on staff well-being. Inspiring insights too into how psychologists work in a preventative way, despite the pressures of waiting lists.

Lovely day at University of Aberdeen where I discussed the challenges facing health/care with students on the MSc programme Politics & Public Policy. A great opportunity to discuss sustainability, prevention and collaboration. Much interest in Community Appointment Days @nhsgrampian.bsky.social

Aberdeen Blood Donor Centre Foresterhill @NHSGrampian.bsky.social is open (by appointment) despite the orange boards. Today I heeded the call for blood donations: lovely staff welcoming, straight-forward process, and a tea-cake to follow. Please consider donating - scotblood.co.uk/giving-blood/

Anti Slavery Day October 18th. Spot the signs of modern slavery and report: www.scotland.police.uk/advice-and-i...

We’re committed to our Anti-Racism Strategy @nhsgrampian.bsky.social & to working to deliver on it. Grampian Empowered Multi-Cultural Staff Group led a discussion on the BMA’s Race Equality in Medicine Survey with concerning findings about the experience of racism in Scotland. We need to do more!

NHS Grampian is showing its commitment to the health and wellbeing of staff by becoming the first health board to sign @themigrainetrust.bsky.social's workplace pledge. Read more: www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/ju...

Following a competitive recruitment process, NHS Grampian today announced the appointment of Laura Skaife-Knight as its new chief executive: www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/ju...

Impressed to see how @NHSGrampian.bsky.social Involving You teams are taking information on screening & vaccination programmes to our diverse local communities, using #digital to share films on tablets with information on specific services. #innovation #engagement #Prevention #PopulationHealth

Thank you 🙏 to Midwives @NHSGrampian.bsky.social Maternity Services & colleagues from @NHSGPIMHS @NHSGinvolvingU @NHSGEqualities for being at @AberdeenMosqueandIslamicCentre Eid on the Terrace in #Aberdeen. Great to be out encouraging health screening & talking about support around pregnancy

Lovely today to spend time meeting staff at DrGrays_Elgin @NHSGrampian.bsky.social, having lunch in the friendly canteen and hearing about the great enthusiasm to develop integration and to share innovative ideas. Impressed by these welcome boards too!

A fantastic day with Team @NHSGrampian.bsky.social at #GrampianPride #ProudToBeNHSG . An honour to walk together with staff and meet more colleagues from across our organisation - from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen. #InclusionMatters 🙏🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The least I could do was personally sign a certificate for each of our @NHSGrampian.bsky.social long-serving #volunteers to acknowledge, celebrate 🎉and 🙏thank them for fantastic service, making a real difference to patient care #VolunteersWeek25 #ThankYouVolunteers #ProudToBeNHSG

I visited the new #Palestine Museum, Dundas Street Edinburgh where powerful and memorable images tell the Palestinian story through artwork. Particularly striking is the testimony from Dr Khalil Khalistan, committed to looking after the wounded and dying in Gaza. In memory of Child 991.

Marking 31 May #WhiteArmbandDay On 31 May 1992, a radio message across Prijedor in Bosnia instructed all Bosnian Muslims to wear white armbands & hang white sheets from their houses, making them targets for the Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing srebrenica.scot/2025/05/31/w...

1/3 🚲🏥 We were delighted to welcome Ralph Roberts to our headquarters at Summerfield House today.

Proud of the teams @NHSGrampian.bsky.social who helped deliver our #AntiRacism Strategy, showing real leadership. Acknowledging this is on-going work, including being inclusive & curious about all the cultures which we are privileged to have within NHSG & celebrating alongside colleagues

#NoMowMay! 💚🌸🦋 Alison Evison, Chair of the Board of NHS Grampian, is once again underlining her support for letting the grass grow at this important time for the bugs emerging for the spring. Read more: www.nhsgrampian.org/about-us/sus... @alisonevison.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Honoured to carry the May Day banner at the AberdeenTUC March today. Great to see such a strong turnout to celebrate the workers of the world. Memorable words from Tommy Campbell at the rally : “The only wars we should be fighting are the war on poverty and the war against attacks on human rights.”

📢 Public Holiday - 21/04/25 #Easter 📢 Ill health is unwelcome at any time, but particularly during holidays. This guide will help you stay well and get the #RightCareRightPlace if you need it. www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/using-the-nhs/health-advice-for-public-holidays

North Scotland among highest rates of Huntington's- research by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @nhsgrampian.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

More babies to be born in Moray as C-sections return to Dr Gray’s

🌙 🕌 Inclusion is on the menu for #Eid at NHS Grampian www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/april/inclusion-is-on-the-menu-for-eid-at-nhs-grampian #ProudToBeNHSG 📸: Our catering team, staff, board members, & guests from Aberdeen Mosque & Islamic Centre. @alisonevison.bsky.social @lizzipower.bsky.social

Great to see how the Neurodiverse Employee Group (NEG) @nhsgrampian.bsky.social has grown. So much to learn from them & from the advocacy of our Neurodiversity Champion. Grateful this week to join them at a session on Neurodiversity & The #Menopause, to mark #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek.

Some quiet moments of reflection in the chapels of ARI & RACH @NHSGrampian.bsky.social #coviddayofreflection #COVIDー19 🙏 to the #SpiritualCare team for creating space for thought throughout this March, five years on. Individually & collectively we have borne, continue to bear, so much 🥰

On #InternationalWomensDay reflecting on all the tremendous women @NHSGrampian.bsky.social who are delivering services everyday; supporting each other so we can each be our best selves; working in partnership with colleagues across the system to promote & develop women’s health and wellbeing

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the updated Health & Transport Action Plan for the NHS Grampian region. Aiming to: 🚶‍♂️🚴‍♀️ Support active travel 🌍 Reduce travel impacts on health/environment 🏥 Improve access to health/social care services #HTAP2025 #HealthAndTransport

Today we commemorate #HolocaustMemorialDay Remembering people killed for who they were. But are we learning - learning how prejudice and then hate can escalate? And can we each do more to prevent it? #HMD2025. 🕯️ #LightTheDarkness for #HolocaustMemorialDay

Delighted to join this Pillow Talk event on Sat 8 February 12-3pm for the opening of the Period Place Hub🥹🤭 Conversations on Menopause, Fibroids, Career & Enterprise. @nhsgrampian.bsky.social Aberdeen City HSCP Details from theperiodplace.co.uk

Widening minds; deepening understanding; developing critical thinking; nurturing empathy. Without all this, the space for extreme populism grows. So glad my daughters are encouraging a love of reading in their toddler sons - but without support for literature across our country, we’ll decline:

Dialysis patients across NHS Grampian are being given the option of moving to at-home treatment following a successful pilot of home haemodialysis: www.nhsgrampian.org/life-changin...

Invitation from @nhsgrampian.bsky.social to share views on our Equality Outcomes for 2025-29. Feedback will help shape equality work & improving healthcare services & workforce. Details here: www.nhsgrampian.org/equality-outcomes-2025-2029-consultation. The deadline for responses is 10 January

⚠ ❄ REMINDER from @Nhsgrampian.bsky.social Wintery conditions = busier Emergency Departments WALK LIKE A PENGUIN! Top tips for walking like a penguin to prevent falls: 🔹 extend your arms out at the sides for balance 🔹 don't lock your knees; keep them loose 🔹 point your feet at an outwards angle

Seasons Greetings to all health and social care colleagues @NHSGrampian.bsky.social HSCAberdeen HSCPShire HSCPMoray

“Finding balance” while enabling wellness & responding to illness was the dominant theme of the @NHSGrampian Board this week, but #collaborating to achieve this is key. So good to have reports from staff groups near top of the agenda, setting the meeting themes: sway.cloud.microsoft/CUIfSvEwCLZD...

@nhsgrampian.bsky.social Virtual Carol Service Thanks to @NHSGCharity youtu.be/EUnCl--k2bk 🙏🎄🌟🎅🏽

"We must do everything possible to identify early warning signs and sound the alarm. The best way to honour the victims and survivors of genocide is to ramp up action to prevent this atrocious crime." - @antonioguterres United Nations Secretary General #GenocidePreventionDay #PreventGenocide

Advent began for me when I attended the beautiful and moving Carol Concert hosted by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Multi-Faith Chaplaincy at St Machar’s Cathedral this week. 🙏 to all for creating such a sense of calm and community in such a busy world

9% of people with #HIV in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 don’t know they have it, but testing/treatment for #HIV is free 👉 Order a free blood-borne virus testing kit: 📧 Email: [email protected] #WorldAidsDay2024

Building the resilience of our health care systems needs collaboration: family members collecting loved ones from hospital on discharge promptly; employers releasing them to do this. Can Building Resilience of Health and Care be a shared mission to which we all contribute ? @nhsgrampian.bsky.social

Need an evidence base, but hunch is Community Appointment Days like on Chronic Pain in Northfield have a key role in sustainable services, patient care, empowered citizens & valued staff teams: @nhsgrampian.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @aberdeencc.bsky.social @hscaberdeen @Aberdeen_ACVO

25 November 2024 is the start of this year’s #16DaysOfActivism Against Gender-Based Violence, a global campaign raising awareness and taking action to end domestic violence and gender-based abuse

Thank you @monicalennon.bsky.social for your leadership - ensuring this crucial milestone on the journey to #perioddignity was achieved:

Just one of the gems of my Mearns ward Aberdeenshire - the coastal community of Gourdon, vibrant & empowered, putting #place into action, with welcoming local hospitality for visitors too @abshirecouncil.bsky.social

Right Care - Right Place Such a key component of a sustainable health service that is there to provide the services people need. Increasingly important throughout the year, but stepping up a level in these winter months: www.nhsinform.scot/campaigns/ri... @nhsgrampian.bsky.social

Researchers at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary NHS Grampian are recruiting people aged over 60 to take part in a clinical trial to see if an investigational vaccine may be able to protect people against the symptoms caused by the #norovirus stomach bug:

Disappointed to have missed the visit of these Cairngorm Reindeer to Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen @NHSGrampian today. 🙏 Laura Angus and Amanda Legge for organising the visit supported by @nhsgcharity

Today is Equal Pay Day - the day when women effectively stop getting paid because of the gender pay gap. At current rates it will take 16 years to close this gap.

I’ve spent years working in teams to increase diversity in politics/public life. It seems a greater struggle now, given frequent instances of a disrespectful culture. But when people do step forward, they must be heard, given equal platforms, if we are to have a truly representative democracy