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SMOKING CAUTION: Former World Cup referee Hugh Dallas shows cigarettes the red card. Also pictured are, from left, Smoking Cessation Specialist Nurse Catherine Burke, NHS Lanarkshire Chief Executive Tim Davison and Consultant in Public Health Medicine Dr Lesley Armitage.

NHS Lanarkshire launch new smoking ban

HUGH Dallas MBE helped NHS Lanarkshire launch its new No Smoking Policy on Friday 1 August by showing the red card to cigarettes. Smoking is now banned on all the health board’s premises and grounds – including areas around hospital, health centre and clinic entrances and car parks - Monday 4 August 2008

Staff Nurse Rowena Leach, from New Stevenson, will be one of the chemotherapy trained nurses who will offer advice on the new helpline.

New Helpline and Service for Cancer Patients in Lanarkshire

CANCER patients in Lanarkshire will now have access to expert advice and treatment at weekends after a new service was launched at Monklands Hospital. NHS Lanarkshire, in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, will provide a blood transfusion service on Saturdays and Sundays 8am to 5pm - 25 July 2008.

Bishop Joseph Devine, John Richards (Kilbryde Hospice Director), Jim McColl OBE (chairman and chief executive of East Kilbride-based Clyde Blowers and the hospice’s biggest single benefactor), South Lanarkshire Provost Russell Clearie, Kilbryde Hospice Chairman Tony McGuinness and NHS Lanarkshire Chief Executive Tim Davison.

New Palliative Care Centre opens in East Kilbride

PEOPLE with cancer and other serious illnesses will benefit from a new day centre that was officially opened in East Kilbride on Wednesday July 23. The Kilbryde Hospice’s Red Deer Drop-In Centre, run in conjunction with NHS Lanarkshire, will provide palliative care services to an estimated 400 patients each year - 25 July 2008