Snapshot Report September 2025

As we continue with the vital task of planning staffing for the new hospital, we’ve agreed the workforce requirements for inclusion in the Full Business Case that we’re currently finishing. This milestone follows engagement with senior leads in departments and services.

We met with colleagues working on other aspects of the project – digital, service redesign, Community Benefits and commissioning & migration. This helps us to continue to refine workforce requirements as their strategic plans develop.

Community Benefits are developed and implemented through the Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) team and construction partner Laing O’Rourke.

A total of 18 successful candidates for graduate and professional apprenticeship positions started work with Laing O’Rourke. We’ve also been talking to North and South Lanarkshire education colleagues to see how the project could tie in with pupils’ learning needs.

We’re driving ahead with planning for a “digital hospital” that will use the latest tech to benefit patients, visitors and staff.

Our Digital Hospital Delivery Group meets every month and we’re currently focusing on a range of requirements.

Final rounds of engagement have allowed us to refine the shortlist of digital requirements. We also held a digital collaboration workshop the health board’s digital stakeholders, and there are more to come.

This part of the project looks at how services can be redesigned to maximise how well they work in the new hospital.

We’ve had engagement sessions with colleagues in cancer care, the Hospital Emergency Care Team and physiotherapy, allowing us to update their individual plans for how services will work in the new Monklands. We’ve also been looking at the clinical research facility in the hospital.