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Success at COSLA Excellence Awards
The 2019 COSLA Excellence Awards were held on Thursday 10 October in St. Andrew’s. The awards celebrate the very best in Scottish local government.
Two services from Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) were shortlisted for the awards. These were Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow and the Recovery Communities, with Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow winning Category 2: Achieving Better Outcomes in Partnership.
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.
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.
New artwork celebrates staff and their resilience in our HSCP’s care homes
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) operates five residential care homes for older people across the city, all of which were significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As restrictions began to be relaxed, and the care homes moved to a position of recovery, it was important to reflect our staff’s experiences and express this through art. This artwork could serve as both a memorial and be a testament to our staff’s resilience to keep residents and colleagues supported during the pandemic and the challenges that it brought.
Connection Matters - Is loneliness affecting the people you support?
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) has long recognised the impact of social isolation on our well-being and launched a Socially Connected Strategy in June 2022. The strategy heard from people across the city on how vital social connections are, and essential in supporting someone to live well in their local community for as long as possible – a key factor of the Maximising Independence approach.
Parkhead Hub - June Update
Complex Needs Service celebrates its one-year anniversary
Our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Complex Needs team has recently celebrated their one-year anniversary since launching the innovative new service in March 2022.
The Complex Needs Service was launched as a brand new outreach model that aims to provide a specialist, highly personalised service for individuals presenting with multiple and complex health and social care needs who aren’t engaging with mainstream services in Glasgow.