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Celebrating our volunteers
National Volunteers’ Week takes place from 1 to 7 June every year and is a celebration across the UK of all the contributions volunteers make within their community.
![Caption - Volunteers in picture – Claire Cunningham, Arts volunteer, Jean Ash Hub Café Assistant volunteer and Katie Yuile (collecting the award on behalf of the Prison Peer Mentors volunteers) with Fiona Moss.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/volunteer%20group%20%282%29.jpeg)
Quit Your Way on No Smoking Day
This year No Smoking Day is on 9 March, so why not make the most of the free expert advice and options available from our staff to support you to stop smoking.
![No Smoking Day](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Twitter%201%20-%20NSD%202022.png)
National Award for Pharmacy Led Pain Clinic
A pharmacist-led pain clinic in Govanhill Health Centre has won a national award for the ‘Addressing Overprescribing’ category and an overall Silver Award, as voted by the audience, at the PrescQIPP Annual Awards 2021. The winners were announced at an online award ceremony on 13 October.
Summer in the Garden at Gartnavel Royal Hospital
Now that Autumn is here and winter approaches, the Growing Spaces in the garden at Gartnavel Royal Hospital have started to take on new colours and shapes. Seed heads and falling leaves carpet the walkways and yet the Sunflowers still offer a striking reminder of the summer now gone.
![Gartnavel Garden Tour](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Garden%20Tours%20%282%29.jpg)
Volunteers' Week Highlights Virtual Volunteering in Leverndale Hospital
This year’s Volunteers’ Week is from 1 to 7 June, and is a time to say thanks and recognise the fantastic contribution made by volunteers across Glasgow City Health and Social Care (HSCP) services.
![Picture of patients' pictures.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Virtual%20Volunteering%20at%20Leverndale%20%282%29.jpg)
Glasgow City HSCP Pharmacist wins at National Conference
Leanne Black, Advanced Prescribing Support Pharmacist won the poster prize at the recent Scottish Practice Pharmacist & Prescribing Advisers Association Conference, held virtually on 28 October 2020.
Peaceful Haven in the Hospital Grounds
The Art in the Gart creative recovery programme at Gartnavel Royal Hospital has welcomed five times as many visitors as last year to the Growing Spaces sites in the hospital grounds during lockdown.
![Volunteers at Gartnavel royal gardens.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Gartnavel%20Garden%20Volunteers.jpg)
Glasgow City HSCP Occupational Therapy Competencies featured in National Publication
The development of competencies for Occupational Therapists (OTs) working across health and social care in Glasgow City HSCP has again been highlighted as an example of good practice, with a feature in the August 2020 edition of OT News.
![Picture of staff in a meeting.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/OT%20staff%20group%20crop.jpg)
Help to stop smoking is still at the end of the phone
Local NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGG&C) Quit Your Way stop smoking services are still operating across Glasgow.
![Picture of Smoking Advisors.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/GSHSCP%20South%20Locality%20Health%20Improvement%20Team%20Staff%20crop.jpg)
Staff Volunteering in their Communities in response to COVID-19 - Anthony Leebody
Anthony Leebody, Senior Finance Officer in Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, reached out to his neighbours at the start of lockdown. He set up a neighbourhood chat group to bring people together and help identify those who needed extra support.
![Anthony Leebody and family.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Anthony%20Leebody%20and%20family%20web%20crop.jpg)