Working Together to Prevent Suicide

Glasgow City HSCP supports National Suicide Prevention Week, an annual week-long campaign surrounding World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September to raise awareness of suicide and suicide prevention.

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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.

After a successful Glasgow POA campaign over the last five years, Health and Social Care Scotland has now embarked on a national POA campaign, #PeopleLikeYou with 29 of the 31 HSCPs signing up.

Partnership Staff Recognised at NHSGGC Celebrating Success and Chairman’s Awards

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) Celebrating Success Staff Awards were held on 4 November 2019. The event showcases exceptional contributions to patient care. Glasgow City HSCP staff were recognised in several categories.

The Chara Centre received the Celebrating Success Local Staff Award for Glasgow City HSCP, for their work with women experiencing homelessness.

Glasgow National Care Leavers Week Open Day 2019

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (GCHSCP) hosted their 8th Annual Care Leavers Open Day at the Barras Art and Design (BaAD) venue in the East End on Friday 25 October 2019.

The event coincided with National Care Leavers Week and was a celebration of the individual and collective achievements of the incredible talents of Glasgow’s Care Leavers. The Theme of this years’ event was MOTIVATION. 

New App for Young Residents

The James McLean Project (JMP) provides accommodation and support to homeless young men and women aged 16 to 21. The team at the JMP in Barmulloch has launched an App, which will transform the way they communicate with their service users.

The App, which will improve the way the service delivers information to residents and how they feedback to the service, was officially launched in October.

Chatter 'n' Natter to End Loneliness

The Partnership’s Local Area Coordination Team has been promoting Chatter ‘n’ Natter as part of the wider campaign to end loneliness across Glasgow. This very simple concept encourages any person who is feeling lonely to sit at a designated table within a café setting that displays the Chatter ‘n’ Natter logo. To date the team has signed up 33 cafés to the scheme, which include various Aroma Cafés within hospital settings throughout Glasgow and a number of Encore Cafés within Glasgow Life premises, as well as independent cafés throughout Glasgow.

Dad's Antenatal Workshop

Are you about to become a dad?

Do you want to learn how to change a nappy, bathe your baby or meet other dad's to be? Then come along to our Dad's Antenatal workshop on Thursday 21 Nov (6pm - 7.30pm). To book a space, phone Susie or James on 0141 232 0171 or or Alison on 0141 774 8202

Health and Social Care Locality Plans Now Available

The Glasgow City Integration Joint Board’s Strategic Plan and Locality Plans cover health and social care services across Glasgow City. Each of the three local areas (North East, North West and South) that make up Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) develop their own Locality Plan with partners including patients, service users, carers and the third and independent sectors.