(from left) Lyndsay Noble, North Lanarkshire Council City Deal Manager; Des Murray, North Lanarkshire Council Chief Executive; Colin Lauder, NHS Lanarkshire Interim Chief Executive; Graeme Reid, Director, Monklands Replacement Project.North Lanarkshire Council and NHS...

Community members supporting plans for the new University Hospital Monklands are stressing its creation will boost care across Lanarkshire. While patients who live in the vicinity of the new hospital will receive both emergency and planned care there, it will also...

By Lesley Aitken, MRP Community Benefits Engagement Lead (Pictured above)There has been a lot happening this past year. We had planning approval granted by North Lanarkshire Council in June 2024. This was a huge milestone for the project and paved the way for...

By Jo Duffy, Senior Health Improvement Officer and Elspeth Russell, Consultant in Public Health.NHS Lanarkshire has a strong strategic commitment as an anchor organisation to help tackle some of the things that create Lanarkshire’s socioeconomic inequalities - the...

(Pictured) Graeme Reid, Director of the Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) Site works are stepping up as the exciting plans to create the new University Hospital Monklands move forward.Following recent earth settlement trials, more preparatory works are starting on...

(Pictured) Kayla McCandlish, Sustainability Intern on the Monklands Replacement Project team.Hello! I am Kayla McCandlish and I am pleased to announce that I am the first Sustainability Intern to join the Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) Team.Sustainability has...

(Pictured) Jan Taylor, Chair of Camglen Health & Social Care Forum and Vice-Chair of South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Forum.Jan Taylor lives in Cambuslang. She’s helping with plans for the new University Hospital Monklands because she knows it will play...

A super hi-tech facility is set to be constructed to aid planning and engagement for Lanarkshire’s new hospital.Work has begun at University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie to create an “Immersive Suite” that will use the latest digital technology to share a virtual...

(Pictured) Margaret Moncrieff, Chair of South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Forum and member of the Monklands Engagement Forum.Our latest Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) blog is a little bit different. It’s not written by one of the MRP team but instead...

(from left) Donald Reid, NHS Lanarkshire Board non-executive director; Colin Lauder, NHS Lanarkshire Deputy Chief Executive & Director of Planning, Property and Performance; Dean Molloy, from contractor I&H Brown.The exciting plans to create the new University...

Designing a new University Hospital Monklands offers a unique opportunity for the project team to look at digital innovation options for our new hospital. One of our digital aspirations is to have a Digital Twin, which is a 4D virtual model of the physical hospital...

Eager pupils went “back to school” before the end of the holidays to find out about NHS Lanarkshire’s exciting project to create the new University Hospital Monklands.Eight school students from North and South Lanarkshire attended the second Summer School run by the...

People can now take an eye-catching virtual tour through part of the proposed layout of the new University Hospital Monklands.The exciting Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) video shows computer-generated images illustrating the “village” concept of the new...

For our latest MRP Blog we asked the project’s Commissioning and Migration Manager, Lisa Armitage, to tell us about what work is happening to develop our commissioning, migration and soft landings strategies which aim to help us transition to the new University...

The exciting vision to replace University Hospital Monklands has taken another important step forward with approval of the project’s planning application.At a full meeting of North Lanarkshire Council today (20 June 2024), the council agreed planning permission for...

For our latest MRP Blog we asked the project’s Digital Lead, Maureen McGinn, to tell us about what work is happening to design Scotland’s first digital hospital.  Maureen gave us an overview of some of the areas the team are focusing on currently:   “Our digital team...

In front of the large Patientrack screen are (back) emergency medicine consultant Dr Gautham Balachandran and staff nurse Meghan Ferrie and (front) emergency medicine consultant Dr Laura McGregor [left] and clinical support worker Kate StevensonA first for Scotland’s...

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting a Summer School within the Monklands Replacement Project again during the school holidays in North Lanarkshire!Last year's Summer SchoolThe MRP’s first Summer School took place in collaboration with the North...

Scottish Government Permanent Secretary John-Paul Marks was delighted to visit NHS Lanarkshire to hear about the exceptional work being done across the organisation. Chief Executive Professor Jann Gardner, Chair Martin Hill and Director of Public Health Professor...