On Saturday 8th May one of our team, Linda Graham, took part in the Stirling 10 Mile Midnight Tiara Walk.
This took Linda around many of the sights of
The Midnight Walk is a charity event supporting Strathcarron Hospice, located in Denny, providing free professional care for patients with life limiting illnesses. Linda has previously supported a number of charity events, including the Race for Life. We are all very proud of Linda and the £110 she raised for this fantastic charity.
If you would like to find out more about Strathcarron, please click on the link below. http://www.strathcarronhospice.org/
Alere Quiz Night - April 2010
We held our first annual Alere Quiz Night on 23rd April at the Birds ‘n’ Bees in Causewayhead. Great turn out, with over 70 people at the event.Callum was our quiz master for the evening and posed a great set of questions, along with the Paper Plane Flying competition and Pin the Tail on the Donkey rounds. At the end of the evening Monika’s team (The Good, The Bad and The Deano) ran out deserved winners.
The event was also used to raise funds for Maggies Cancer Caring Centres, with over £490 raised on the evening. Great effort everyone! Everyone had a fantastic night and we are all looking forward to next years event.
Stirling Medical Innovations Ltd rebranded to Alere Technologies Ltd – 1st April 2010 As of 1st April 2010, Stirling Medical Innovations Limited will change its name and commence doing business under the new company name Alere Technologies Limited. As part of a phased approach, various diagnostic business units of the parent company Inverness Medical Innovations (IMA), as well as various
Alere is derived from Latin and means to nurture, to care for, or to support. As a company focused on improving the quality of patient care, the name Alere well represents our goals.
- Empowers patients to take charge of their own health at home
- Enables healthcare providers and payers to improve outcomes and decrease costs
- Allows doctors and patients to better connect with each other and providing the information necessary to make better healthcare decisions
Maggie’s Cake Bake Day - March 2010
To support Maggie’s Day on the 26th March 2010, we held a two day cake bake – was meant to be for one day but we had so many employees, making so many cakes we had to! Over the two days we raised £136 for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre’s. Over the last five years, Alere has been a strong supporter of this great cause with many events organized to raise funds.A Maggie’s Centre is a place to turn to for help with any of the problems, small or large, associated with cancer. Under one roof you can access help with information, benefits advice, psychological support both individually and in groups, courses and stress reducing strategies. You don’t have to make an appointment, or be referred and everything offered is free of charge. It is there for anybody who feels the need for help, which includes those who love and look after someone with cancer, who often feel as frightened and vulnerable as those who actually have the disease. A Maggie’s Centre will be many things to many people. It is there for anybody to use in the way they want to. There isn’t a one size fits all recipe for how you live with cancer. Everybody needs to find their own way. The job of the professionals at Maggie’s is to listen to you, to help you find out what you want and give you the tools to help yourself.
http://www.maggiescentres.org/maggies/maggiescentres/home/home.html
Stirling Medical Innovations continue to participate in
Murray Whyte, a Senior Development Engineer at Stirling Medical Innovations and
Best Companies Award accredited “Outstanding – 2 Star Status” – January 2010 
Stirling’s Star Performance Here in
We have been granted the “outstanding” two star status by the prestigious Best Companies Accreditation scheme – the ‘Michelin’ style star rating system for companies throughout
As you would expect the process involves a rigorous methodology developed by surveying more than 1,000,000 employees in over 2000 organisations.
Best Companies Accreditation measures the level of Workforce Engagement within a company, recognising it as the key driver of sustainable business performance.
Our results showed an incredible 94.9% engagement level – a massive three times the
We believe the results are an endorsement of our distinctive culture of creating an environment where people can excel and where they maximise their potential and opportunity.
There is no SMI’ type’. From day one we have cultivated a performance based culture where it’s not only what you do but how you do it that counts. Wanting to be clearly different we formulated our own WOW factors:
Trust and be trusted
Innovate
Enjoy the journey
Be courageous
- Be accountable
They have just delivered BIG TIME by placing us among the top 190 of companies given Best Companies Accreditation this year.
Importantly this award also means we will deliver for the entire Inverness Medical family.
Research shows accredited companies significantly out perform the stock market achievement of those listed on the FTSE 100 index.
“We would like to congratulate Stirling Medical Innovations. An engaged workforce is essential as organisations move out of the recession and into a more stable economic situation. No doubt many organisations have tackled redundancies and rapid change this year. But organisations like Stirling Medical Innovations that have kept on engaging their staff and making sure they are involved in the business will be in a good position for the future and should be congratulated for their efforts”.
David Lang, Managing Director of SMI, said: “We are all thrilled at receiving this award. It is an outstanding achievement that flows from our uniquely tailored people culture that encourages empowerment through trust, courage to innovate and a sense of enjoyment in attaining goals and knowing that we can all make a difference. A team spirit ethos is at the heart of everything we do.”
One employee response to the survey question ‘What do you think makes this a great workplace?’: “A good sense of team-spirit. A sense of mission. A good culture of cross-tier interaction and commitment to employee development. Interesting and creative work. Interesting and polite people.”
Ramping up Manufacturing – July 2009
Through the course of 2009 we have tweaked the processes and resourcing and on Tuesday 7th July 09 successfully produced our first batch which delivered a 175% increase on capacity from Jan 2009. This is going to secure the supply of strips for our in-house use and the ongoing clinical trials.
First batch of product in to Clinical trials in the
The first batches of our product has been shipped to the