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Huge congratulations to our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) staff and services who were honoured at this year’s Glasgow Times Community Champions Awards 2021 on 1 December.

A programme to distribute and prescribe a revolutionary medicine to reduce HIV transmissions in Glasgow for people who inject drugs has been featured as an example of good practice in integrated working in a national HIV Journal, HIV Medicine. 

Physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for the usual ways in which Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) seeks the views and experiences of people who access our health and care services.  

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown periods meant Green Wynd staff had to pull together plans to determine what services had to be delivered to ensure that homeless people could access accommodation in what had become a public health emergency. 

Forty more GP Practices in Glasgow will now get a Community Link Worker / Practitioner to help patients improve their health and wellbeing.

Staff from carers organisations in Glasgow and Catalonia recently shared their experiences and highlighted the importance of support for unpaid carers.

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), in partnership with SOL Connect, launched a new emergency responder service in May 2021. The service is now firmly established and is successfully providing support to several individuals in North East Glasgow.

As part of COP26, an awareness raising art installation highlighting the impact of air pollution on health was hosted on the campus of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s (NHSGGC) Gartnavel Hospitals.

Children and young people who are care experienced have a lot to celebrate, and Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Care Experienced Open Day is one way that we support and celebrate the achievements and talents of care experienced individuals.

Playing a small part for COP26, as part of a joint multi-generational project, Knightswood Connects facilitated the planting of trees in Knightswood in partnership with Friends of Knightswood Park.