Family Group Decision Making Teams Help Keep Families Together

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) Teams have been working with families across the city to give the opportunity for families to sit down and talk about their children’s needs and make plans to support them as a family group.  

Partnership Outreach Programme Helps Break Cycle of Offending

The Positive Outcomes Project (POP) is a partnership-based outreach team that is making a difference to those who find themselves in a cycle of offending due to alcohol and/or drug dependency. 

The POP team consists of three Addiction Social Care Workers from our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) as well as two officers from Police Scotland and a Sacro lived experience Peer Mentor. 

Glasgow City HSCP NW Locality Engagement Forum - 2 March 2023

Join North West Locality Engagement Forum (LEF) members at an in-person meeting on Thursday 2 March 2023. 

Find out about and ask questions about our services and supports for older people and their families:

If you'd like to attend, please contact May Simpson at may.simpson@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or phone 07814707006.

Helping Mothers in Glasgow to Breastfeed with Confidence

Congratulations to Elderpark Housing Association in Govan. They’ve recently signed up to the Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland Scheme. 

The Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland Scheme (BFS) runs across Scotland to help provide mothers with positive experiences of breastfeeding when out and about in public areas. Businesses and organisations can actively support mothers to feed on their premises by signing up to the BFS Scheme and displaying their BFS sticker. This gives a visual reassurance that breastfeeding families will be welcomed.

New Video Launched Explaining How Technology Enabled Care and Support (TECS) Can Help People Live More Independently

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) offers Technology Enabled Care and Support (TECS) as a care and support option, for people to live their lives as independently as possible, in their own home. 

A new video has been launched to promote and explain how TECS can work as part of a person’s package of social care support. The video has been split into two short parts and can be viewed in any order. 

Glasgow Intensive Family Support Service celebrates its one-year anniversary

The Glasgow Intensive Family Support Service (GIFSS) celebrated its one-year anniversary at an event held at the Banqueting Hall in Glasgow’s City Chambers back in October 2022. 

Our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) GIFSS is a support service for families going through tough times and may be at risk of being accommodated. GIFSS works as a collaboration with our HSCP, Aberlour, Action for Children, Right There and Includem, who work in partnership to provide support to families across the city.  

Message from Susanne Millar - Partnership Matters - January/February 2023

Health Improvement Annual Report 2021 to 2022 Now Available

The latest annual report highlighting the work of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Health Improvement Team is now available.

The report provides an insight into the progress made by Health Improvement around improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities during 2021 to 2022.

This year the report focused on:

Film Screenings Increase Staff Awareness Around the Impact of Childhood Adversity

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)’s Health Improvement Team staff has recently been working with the Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) to increase awareness around the impact childhood trauma can have on individuals and society. 
 

Elevate-Glasgow Celebrates Seven Years of Achievement with Graduation Ceremony

Over 100 awards were given to participants in a graduation ceremony at the end of February for qualifications, training and personal development programmes completed by individuals in recovery from drug or alcohol misuse.

Bailie Anthony Carroll, on behalf of the Lord Provost of Glasgow; Susanne Miller, Chief Officer of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP); and Gary Meek, Chief Executive Officer of Glasgow Council on Alcohol and Chair of Elevate-Glasgow, welcomed graduates and guests to the event at Glasgow City Chambers on 23 February 2023.