Robotic cat brings joy to one of our service users

A robotic cat has brought back memories, joy and improved interactions for one of our service users. 

Deborah Thomson, one of our Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Social Workers, has been trying to find innovative ways to improve one of her service user’s life after she was diagnosed with Charles Bonnet Syndrome and Dementia. 

Glasgow City HSCP Homecare Newsletter Summer 2023

Latest news from our Homecare service.

Message from Susanne Millar - Partnership Matters - July/August 2023

Welcome to the latest issue of Partnership Matters.

Partnership Matters - July/August 2023

Our July/August edition features a message from our Chief Officer, Susanne Millar; you can read about our HSCP’s new £72 million Parkhead Health and Care Hub, whose construction is well under way; our ‘Circles of Support’ project is featured, and we celebrate our HSCP Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service’s Crisis Outreach Service which was the winner of the Nursing Team of the Year Award, and Linda Doonan, Nurse Team Leader who was a finalist for Mental Health Nurse of the Year.

Glasgow Red Cross Work With Our HSCP to Deliver Emergency Food Parcels

The Red Cross has been working with Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) on the Winter Food Project, launched to help people experiencing food poverty during the coldest months of the year.

Due to the economic impact of increased fuel and food prices and the rising costs of living impact, many of our HSCPs most vulnerable service users’ financial circumstances were worsening markedly, month on month. 

Anticipatory Care Plan (ACP) Programme Celebrates Third Birthday

The Anticipatory Care Plan (ACP) Programme celebrated its third birthday in April 2023. Over the past three years, the ACP  Programme Team, hosted by Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) has been working with staff and the public across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) to raise awareness of the importance of thinking and planning for the future. 

COVID-19 Briefings

Below are the HSCP briefings from March - December 2020 on the impact of Coronavirus on our health and social care services.

COVID-19 Message from Frances McMeeking - February 2021

Please see below a personal video message from Frances McMeeking, Assistant Chief Officer, Operational Care Services, in which she gives an update on her service area and the incredible efforts of her teams in supporting service users in our care homes and their own homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent focus has included the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme and staff health and wellbeing.

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Leverndale Hospital Praised for Pandemic Care

The efforts of staff to continue to provide excellence in care at an adult mental health ward at Leverndale Hospital in Glasgow during the pandemic have been praised by Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.

The Commission inspected the rehabilitation ward within the hospital and spoke to staff and patients to better understand how care has been managed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The ward is an 11-bedded mixed-sex ward, providing intensive rehabilitation and recovery care and treatment to adults with severe and enduring mental health problems.

Mental Health Nurses Day - Sunday 21 February 2021

National Mental Health Nurses Day on 21 February is an opportunity to promote and celebrate Mental Health Nursing in the UK, and recognise and thank nursing staff working in mental health services.

All health and social care staff have risen to the challenges of the Covid-19 Pandemic and it is for this reason it is additionally important to mark National Mental Health Nurses Day this Sunday 21 February.