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Big Shout Out to Monklands Replacement Project team
It’s a Big Shout Out to the award-winning team creating the new University Hospital Monklands.Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) colleagues are getting a round of applause for their: innovative planning of the hospital and its surrounding infrastructure;...
Awards at the double for project to create new hospital
The project to create the new University Hospital Monklands has won two prestigious national and international awards.At the European Healthcare Design Conference in London, the Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) was highly commended in the Future Healthcare Design...
Hospital design in running for top international award
Our exciting plans for the new University Hospital Monklands are making waves internationally.They’ve been shortlisted in the prestigious European Healthcare Design Awards. Our design, created by the Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) with its architects, Keppie...
MRP Community Benefits Update April 2025
By Lesley Aitken, MRP Community Benefits Engagement Lead (Pictured above)I hope you have been able to enjoy the recent spell of good weather. I, for one, am thankful for the lighter nights and the lifting of the winter darkness. It does, however, seem like January...
Coming Soon – MRP Summer School Class of 2025!
A key objective of the MRP Community Benefits Programme is to work with our local schools to create opportunities to give young people the skills to achieve success and to provide NHS Lanarkshire with potential future employees.Working with council education...
Start of groundworks at site of new hospital
Graeme Reid, MRP Director; Colin Lauder, NHS Lanarkshire Interim Chief Executive; Andy Thomson, Laing O’Rourke Project Director; Martin Hill, Chair of the Board of NHS Lanarkshire; Fiona Cowan, MRP Clinical Lead – Nursing.Plans for Lanarkshire’s new hospital have...
Immersive Suite gives virtual reality vision of Scotland’s most advanced hospital
Fiona Cowan, MRP Clinical Lead – Nursing shows Mr Gray a patient bedroomPeople can now step into a virtual reality version of Lanarkshire’s new hospital thanks to a futuristic digital immersive experience.The Immersive Suite uses the latest technology to bring to life...
Council and health board join forces to put road and hospital plans on route to success
(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...
New hospital will bring healthcare benefits to all of Lanarkshire
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...
MRP Community Benefits Update
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...
How the MRP can boost NHS Lanarkshire’s Anchor Organisation commitments
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...
More preparatory works for Lanarkshire’s new hospital
(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...
First Sustainability Intern joins the Monklands Replacement Project
(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...
Another Community Perspective on the New University Hospital Monklands
(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...
Construction starts on futuristic facility to aid engagement on new hospital
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...
New University Hospital Monklands Careers Roadshow
About the Roadshow We will be hosting a Careers Roadshow event aimed at all Secondary School year groups in North and South Lanarkshire. Come along or, if you're a parent or carer, bring your teens along to help them discover what inspiring jobs might suit their...
A Community Perspective on the New University Hospital Monklands
(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...
Site of new hospital comes alive as preparatory work carried out
(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...
Monklands Replacement Project (MRP): Digital Twin
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...
Hospital project’s Summer School just the job for young students
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...
Step inside for a virtual view of Lanarkshire’s new hospital
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...