Green Health Weeks shines spotlight on grounds team

NHS Lanarkshire marked Green Health Week by highlighting the work of its grounds team-whose projects are supporting patients at facilities across the health board area.

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Staff in the grounds maintenance and biodiversity team help to encourage nature and environmental sustainability, with their projects including improving gardens at Udston Hospital and Caird House in Hamilton and at the Lanarkshire Beatson centre at Monklands Hospital.

They are also working to add new pollinator-friendly plants at the health board's headquarters at Kirklands in Bothwell, and say the project will be a “trailblazer rolled out across the wider estate”.

Greenspace staff worked with patients at Caird House forensic mental health services base to rejuvenate the garden area, setting up a gardening group at the start of this year.