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Glasgow’s Community Link Worker Programme Expands
Forty more GP Practices in Glasgow will now get a Community Link Worker / Practitioner to help patients improve their health and wellbeing.
Glasgow City Youth Health Service Launched Across Glasgow
Glasgow City Youth Health Service offers confidential, personalised support to young people aged 12 to 19 years. The service is provided by Nurses, GPs, Counsellors and Multiple Risk Workers and was officially launched in September.
![Glasgow City HSCP Youth Health Service](/sites/default/files/hero-images/GCYHS%20Launch%20Twitter.png)
Staff at Balmore Ward Donate Christmas Presents to Women’s Aid
Generous Glasgow City HSCP staff working in Balmore Ward at Leverndale Hospital decided this year to forego the usual staff tradition of giving presents to each other by Secret Santa and instead donated their presents to the women and children being supported by Renfrewshire Women’s Aid.
![Staff at Balmore Ward with presents](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Staff%20at%20Balmore%20Ward%20with%20presents.jpg)
Ann Volunteers to Help set up Covid Assessment Centre – Making a Real Difference
Ann Forsyth is a Programme Manager, Primary Care Improvement Plan for Glasgow City HSCP, who is currently the Service Manager at the new COVID-19 Assessment Centre in Barr Street in North West Glasgow.
![Barr St picture](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Barr%20St%20picture.jpg)
GP Out-of-Hours Service moves to Appointment Only from 1 June 2020
As part of a planned series of improvements to urgent primary care services, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has introduced a new appointments system within its GP out-of-hours service on a permanent basis.
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New Patient Pathway to Streamline COVID-19 Assessments
New dedicated Community Assessment Centres (CACs) have opened across Greater Glasgow and Clyde to help combat COVID-19 by providing a more streamlined service to assess people presenting symptoms.
![Kerri Neylon at Barr St Clinic.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Kerri%20Neylon%20at%20Barr%20St.jpg)
Maximising Income - Benefits
A new campaign to raise awareness of how people can claim the benefits that they are entitled to has been launched by the South Locality of Glasgow City HSCP. Working with third sector providers and Money Matters, events were held in February outside of Silverburn shopping centre in Pollok w
![Picture of money matters bus.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Money%20matters%20at%20Silverburn%20crop_0.jpg)
Youth Health Service Expands Across Glasgow
Glasgow City HSCP’s Youth Health Service (YHS) aimed at young people aged 12 – 19 years is expanding across the city from February 2020.
![Picture of young people](/sites/default/files/hero-images/young%20people%20running.jpg)
New £17m Gorbals Health and Care Centre Opens its Doors to Patients
The new £17 million Gorbals Health and Care Centre opened its doors to the local community for the first time this week.Work began in June 2017 on the new modern facility providing improved access to a range of community and primary care services.
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New Gorbals Health and Care Centre Opens January 2019
The planned opening date of the new Gorbals Health and Care Centre is Monday, 21 January 2019. Plans are now underway for the transfer of services from the current Health Centre, Twomax building and Southbank Centre to the new Health and Care Centre.
The address will be:
![Picture of Health and Care Centre](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Gorbals%20HCC%20cropped.jpg)