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Family Nurse Partnership Celebrates 10-year Anniversary

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and marking the occasion by bringing staff and clients together to recognise their decade-long achievements.

The FNP is a person-centred, preventative intervention programme offered to young first-time parents aged 19 or under, and their children. The programme is evidence based and is delivered in the parents’ own homes. It’s designed to cover the first crucial 1,001 days of life, from early pregnancy until the child reaches the age of two years old.  

Glasgow's cared for children to share £2.6m before Christmas

£2.6m will be shared among 6,500 vulnerable children and families in time for Christmas.

On Wednesday 30 November, the Glasgow City Integration Joint Board approved recommendations to fund the one-off £400 winter payment to looked after children.

Foster Carers will also receive an increase of £15 per week starting from January 2023.

Councillors carry naloxone kits to help save lives

Glasgow councillors are being trained to use Naloxone - a drug which can help prevent fatal overdoses.

Glasgow’s Health Social Care Partnership (GCHSCP) arranged training following a visit to the city’s North East Recovery Community by Councillor Declan Blench, chair of the North East Area Planning Partnership.

HSCP Staff Celebrated at NHSGGC Staff Excellence Awards

Our HSCP’s Staff Awards for Excellence category winners were invited to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s (NHSGGC) Celebrating Success Staff Awards Event on 4 May 2023. 

Glasgow marks International Nurses Day 2023

On 12 May we celebrated International Nurses Day. Nurses across the world were recognised for their commitment, compassion and daily contributions to society.

International Nurses Day was first established in 1974 by the International Council of Nurses and serves to highlight the important role nurses fulfil in health and social care.

This year the theme was ‘Our Nurses. Our Future’. The theme aims to set out the vision and importance of nursing in the future that will address global health challenges and improve global health for all. 

Go Ahead for New Health and Care Centres

Two new multi-million pound state-of-the-art health and care centres in the Gorbals and Woodside are set to be open to local residents by the end of 2018.

Cervical Cancer Awareness Roadshow in Glasgow

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership staff took part in national charity Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust first ever roadshow in Glasgow on 20 March 2017 at Glasgow’s George Square.

HSCP retains UNICEF Baby Friendly Gold Award

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) has retained the UNICEF Baby Friendly - Achieving Sustainability (Gold) Award.

This award celebrates excellent and sustained practice in the support of infant feeding and parent-infant relationships, helping services to embed baby friendly care in their workplace for the long term.

All three localities within our HSCP submitted the revalidation report to UNICEF as a city together for the first time. The report highlighted the high standard of work delivered across our HSCP in relation to the baby friendly standards.

Wallacewell Day Care Centre Official Opening

A new day care centre for older people in North East Glasgow was officially opened in February 2017. Wallacewell Day Care Centre in Balornock has been built as part of an overall £100m Glasgow City Council project to transform residential and day care services for the city's older people.

Adult Services Role in Tackling Child Neglect Forum

Adult Services have a role to play in identifying instances of child neglect. That was the message from the recent forum on 1 March 2017 at the Emirates Stadium.