Motion · S6M-13423 · 29 May 2024

South Lanarkshire Community Nurses Receive the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland's Long Service Award

Lodged by Collette Stevenson (Scottish National Party) Standard Motion 24 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates the 34 South Lanarkshire community nurses who have recently received the prestigious Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland's Long Service Award; understands that, cumulatively, the nurses have amassed a remarkable 880 years of dedicated service to the patients of South Lanarkshire; notes that the award, established in 1889 to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, is granted to nurses with more than 21 years of service in the community; further notes the recognition that the nurses have received from both Professor Soumen Sengupta, Chief Officer of South Lanarkshire University Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), and from Lesley Thomson, South Lanarkshire University HSCP’s Nurse Director, who it understands have commented on the patience and the compassion of nurses within NHS South Lanarkshire, as well as on the difference their work makes to countless lives, and acknowledges what it sees as the compassion, professionalism and hard work that nurses in South Lanarkshire display in the care that they offer.

Supporters (24)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.