The HSCP’s Partnership Matters briefing highlights some of the work that’s happening across the HSCP with partners. It currently includes featured updates and announcements, news items and upcoming meetings and events. From time-to-time, the HSCP also publishes bulletins and newsletters on specific services or topics. If you have any suggestions for future editions of Partnership Matters, email gchscp_communications@glasgow.gov.uk.
This month we celebrated the long service awards for social work staff as well as other awards received by our staff. We also have a focus on equality including the British Sign Language (BSL) Scotland Act 2015. We also look at recent activities staff have taken part in, including 16 days of Action to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Carers Rights Day.
This month we are celebrating the success of Partnership staff and projects at recent awards ceremonies. We also look at the work being done to train staff who work with people with dementia, the success of providing Money Advice Services in our health centres and a new campaign to help reduce numbers of young people smoking.
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In this issue we congratulate the winners and commendations of the Partnership’s Facing the Future Together staff awards. You can also read about the work the Choose Life Group is doing for suicide prevention and how staff were supporting Pride Glasgow. We also feature recent activities of the Locality Engagement Forums and progress on the new Health and Care Centres in Gorbals and Woodside.
On 6 July 2017 a major milestone in the construction of the new Woodside Health and Care Centre took place when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Shona Robison MSP, cut the first sod at a special ceremony.
This briefing provides an overview of the Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership and Glasgow City Integration Joint Board, and it highlights progress to date since the Integration Joint Board was constituted in February 2016.
In this issue we feature Project Search - our work experience programme that supports young people with learning disabilities and/or autism to get and keep a fulltime job.
We also focus on Anticipatory Care Planning and the benefits of Cordia Supported Living and Telecare.
Plus its time to nominate a staff team or individual for the Facing the Future Together Awards 2017.
You can read about how the Homelessness Services Team, part of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, has developed some new ways of working with partner agencies in the third sector to focus on better outcomes for the most vulnerable citizens with complex needs who find themselves homeless.
In this issue we feature the official openings of the new Maryhill Health and Care Centre and the new Glasgow Psychological Trauma Centre. An exciting new development is the consultation on the proposed development of a Health and Social Care Hub at Parkhead in April and May. We also feature work with Young Carers and the Children and Young People Services Plan 2017-20.
In this issue we talk about the success of staff at recent Award ceremonies, Adult Support and Protection, and how the Telecare Service helps people stay safe at home. We also give an update on our Provider Event and the work of the Glasgow City Community Respiratory Team (pictured above) who featured in the British Lung Foundation’s World COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Day Campaign.
