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Glasgow’s Community Link Worker Programme Expands
Forty more GP Practices in Glasgow will now get a Community Link Worker / Practitioner to help patients improve their health and wellbeing.
New Clinics Introduced to Provide COVID Jabs for Newly Arrived Asylum Seekers
A vaccination clinic has been set up in Glasgow to provide COVID vaccinations for newly arrived asylum seekers.
![Image of person getting vaccinated](/sites/default/files/hero-images/covid%20vaccination%20pic.jpg)
Refugee Week Highlights Film and Resource Pack
Refugee Week runs from 14 to 20 June this year with the theme ‘We Cannot Walk Alone'. As part of services to support Glasgow’s refugee and asylum seekers communities, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) South Locality Health Improvement Team has been working with Govan C
Ann Volunteers to Help set up Covid Assessment Centre – Making a Real Difference
Ann Forsyth is a Programme Manager, Primary Care Improvement Plan for Glasgow City HSCP, who is currently the Service Manager at the new COVID-19 Assessment Centre in Barr Street in North West Glasgow.
![Barr St picture](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Barr%20St%20picture.jpg)
GP Out-of-Hours Service moves to Appointment Only from 1 June 2020
As part of a planned series of improvements to urgent primary care services, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has introduced a new appointments system within its GP out-of-hours service on a permanent basis.
![Nurse on phone](/sites/default/files/hero-images/nurse%20on%20phone.png)
New Patient Pathway to Streamline COVID-19 Assessments
New dedicated Community Assessment Centres (CACs) have opened across Greater Glasgow and Clyde to help combat COVID-19 by providing a more streamlined service to assess people presenting symptoms.
![Kerri Neylon at Barr St Clinic.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Kerri%20Neylon%20at%20Barr%20St.jpg)
Starting Conversations - Annual Equalities Event
More than 80 people gathered together to work towards equality for all in Glasgow on 6 February 2020 at Glasgow City HSCP’s annual Equalities event at The William Quarrier Scottish Epilepsy Centre.
![Picture of speakers at event.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Equalities%20group%20small.jpg)
Do you have a Power of Attorney?
Families are being encouraged to plan for the future by obtaining Power of Attorneys (POA) to protect the wishes of relatives and friends in the event of illness or accidents.
![Picture of a man and woman seated](/sites/default/files/hero-images/POA%20cropped.jpg)
Care Homes Share Learning About Red Bag Scheme
Staff from care homes across Glasgow came together in April to share their experience of participating in the Red Bag Scheme.
![Alan Gilmour and Stephen Fitzpatrick with the red bag.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/AlanGilmour%20and%20Stephen%20Fitzpatricl%20at%20Red%20Bag%20Event%20cropped.jpg)
GCHSCP South Locality Engagement Session - Spotllght on Older People's Services
Staff, service users, carers, community representatives and others came together at a South Locality Engagement Session on 26th February to discuss developments in older people’s health and care services.
![Picture of consultation event](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Older%20Peopl%20event%20crop.jpg)