Glasgow City HSCP Homecare Newsletter Summer 2023

Latest news from our Homecare service.

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. 

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. 

Glasgow City HSCP Home Care News - Winter 2021

Read the latest news from the Home Care Service.

Staff Help Sadie Celebrate her 100th Birthday

Sadie Barclay, a service user at Glasgow City HSCP’s Glenwood Day Care Centre in Castlemilk, Glasgow, recently celebrated her 100th birthday. As the centre is currently closed due to Coronavirus (COVID-19), staff members Anne Lowe, Day Care Supervisor; Naomi Lever, Day Care Worker; and Robert Barnes, Driver decided to visit her outdoors at her home to mark the occasion.

Technology Enabled Care and Support for People with a Learning Disability - March 2021 Update

This communication provides an update on Glasgow City HSCP’s work to explore the potential for technology enabled care and support (TECS), to have an extended role in meeting the assessed needs of people with a learning disability.  

Cost of the Nursery Day Project

The Cost of the Nursery Day project was a collaboration between Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership and Glasgow City Council Early Learning and Childcare to identify poverty-related barriers to learning and participation in nurseries, and to develop practical ways to overcome them. The project was delivered in 2019 and complements Child Poverty Action Group's Cost of the School Day project.