The latest annual report highlighting the work of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Health Improvement Team is now available.

The report provides an insight into the progress made by Health Improvement around improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities during 2021 to 2022.

This year the report focused on:

• Health Improvement Strategic Direction Priorities
  • Building Mental Health and Resilience
  • Building Structurally and Socially Resilient Communities
  • Creating a Culture for Health
• Life Stages
  • Early Years
  • Children & Young People
• Settings
  • Primary Care
  • Criminal Justice
  • Educational Establishments
  • Place Based Activity
• Workforce Development and Staff Health and Wellbeing
  • Including Research
• Hosted Teams
  • Sexual Health
  • Alcohol & Drugs
  • Mental Health and Inequalities

These support the strategic priorities of our Integration Joint Board (IJB).

The report again covers activity with our local communities and our key partners in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Health Improvement Service again were imaginative and demonstrated new ways of effectively communicating and supporting activity across the city.

Fiona Moss, our HSCP’s Head of Health Improvement and Equality, said: “This report captures the broad range of our business with others in the HSCP, partners and communities, and the programmes delivered for the wider health board area give us much to be proud of. COVID-19 has again fundamentally affected what we’ve been able to do this year and has required us to work innovatively and responsively to meet the needs of local communities. 

“Our Health Improvement staff have worked exceptionally hard to adapt and sustain as many of these programmes as possible.”

Highlights include achieving targets for:

• Alcohol Brief Interventions (ABIs) 
• Smoking quit rates at 3 months from the 40% most deprived areas 
• Women smoking in pregnancy
•  A reduction in drop-off rates in breastfeeding from Health Visitor first meeting and 6 weeks
• Development of the Community Link Workers Service 
• Expansion of the Youth Health Service 
• Welfare Rights and Financial Inclusion 
• City Food Plan 
• Thrive under 5 
• Mental Health and Wellbeing – expansion and development of new services, for example, Compassionate Distress Response  Service  

We’re also proud to have won awards for a number of our work areas: 

• Cancer Screening Animations for Ethnic Minorities – won the Digital Initiative Award at the UKPHR Innovation in Public Health Awards 
• #HeidOutdoors - won the Best Social Media Awards at the UKPHR Innovation in Public Health Awards 
• Quit Your Way Service – won the Uniformed Services category in the Glasgow Times Community Champions Award