COVID-19 Message from Rhoda Macleod

Please see below a personal video message from Rhoda MacLeod, Head of Adult Services (Sexual Health and Police Custody and Prison Health Care), in which she gives an update on how her teams have been continuing to support patients and service users during the COVID-19 pandemic, and thanks staff for all their incredible efforts.

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Hundreds of Homeless People Receive Covid-19 Vaccinations

Hundreds of vulnerable homeless people are receiving their first Covid-19 vaccinations in Glasgow as teams of nurses visit temporary accommodation and support services to provide injections.

Glasgow City Health & Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is co-ordinating the huge logistical operation in a bid to reach people whose transient and often chaotic lifestyles would have hindered attendance at vaccination centres.

#HeidOutdoors for Good Mental Health

Spending time in nature has been found to help with mental health problems including anxiety and depression, and this is the theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, which runs from 10 to 16 May 2021. 

A week of activity to encourage people to get outside and enjoy nature has been planned by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde’s (NHSGGC) Mental Health Improvement and Equalities team, hosted within Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP).

Message from Susanne Millar - Partnership Matters Briefing - May 2021

Welcome to the first edition of ‘Partnership Matters’, our new briefing to keep you up to date on some of the work that’s been happening across Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP).

Will You Help Our Charity Support Mental Health Recovery?

The Charity for Gartnavel Royal Hospital is currently looking to recruit more volunteer Trustees and Fundraisers, to help find creative ways to develop its capacity to support the mental health recovery of the hospital’s patients. 

The Charity wants to raise funds to develop a programme of recovery-based events and activity. This will help to maintain connections with patients’ communities and contribute to the elimination of the stigma still associated with mental illness. 

The Charity is looking for people with:

Using Technology to Engage with our Local Communities

Glasgow City Integration Joint Board (IJB) Strategic Plan Update

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) will soon begin to review our current Strategic Plan, which will help us develop a new Plan.

COVID-19 Message from Jim McBride - May 2021

Please see below a personal video message from Jim McBride, Head of Adult Services (Homelessness and Community Justice), GCHSCP, in which he gives an update on how staff within his teams have been keeping service users supported during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and thanks staff for all their incredible efforts. 

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Glasgow Hosts Preventing Suicide Contagion Virtual Event

Enhanced Covid Testing to Tackle Glasgow's Southside Outbreak

Glasgow City Council and Glasgow City Health & Social Care Partnership are working together to increase the amount of COVID-19 testing capacity in the areas affected by the current outbreak.

This has already included increasing the number of Local Test Sites carrying out PCR testing, as well as making all test sites in the city available for asymptomatic testing, rather than just symptomatic testing. Lateral Flow Tests have also been made available through southside mosques with Imams urging worshipers to collect tests for their families.