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Mums Help Mums - Breastfeeding Mentors
Increasing the number of mums who breastfeed their babies is a Scottish Government priority
to improve child health and reduce inequalities.
In Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s North East Locality, the Health
Improvement Team has adopted a range of different approaches to help our local mums to
initiate and sustain breastfeeding. As well as maintaining our UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative
accreditation, we have established three breastfeeding support groups to help mums access
support from staff and other mums.
Improving Practice in Specialist Dementia Units
Balmore Ward at Leverndale Hospital features in the latest Alzheimer Scotland: Dementia In
Scotland magazine. Here is an extract from the article.
Balmore ward is one of 60 specialist dementia care units in Scotland. A small number of these
units – including Balmore Ward – are Specialist Dementia Unit Demonstrator sites, which work
with Focus on Dementia to develop and roll out improved practice.
Palliative Care and End of Life Plan Engagement
Staff promoting 16 days of action 2017
16 Days of Action to End Violence Against Women is coordinated in Glasgow by Community Safety Glasgow Violence Against Women Team on behalf of the Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership (GVAWP).
Between 25 November and 10 December staff from across Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership localities took part in events with Women’s Aid, Police Scotland and Community Safety Glasgow to raise awareness of issues relating to violence against women.
North East Locality Staff Support Cervical Cancer Prevention Week
North East Locality Staff supported the Jo's Trust #SmearForSmear Campaign during Cervical Cancer Awareness Week which ran from Monday 22- Sunday 28 January. Staff posed for pictures which were posted on the Partnership's Twitter feed @GCHSCP
South Locality Let's Talk About Mental Health Event
In the third of a series of South Glasgow locality engagement events staff, service users, carers, community representatives and others came together on 8th February to discuss developments in local mental health services.
Partnership Signs Up to the Glasgow Volunteering Charter
There is good evidence that volunteering brings benefits to both the person volunteering and the people and organisations they support. Volunteering means choosing to spend time unpaid doing something to help other people or groups, other than (or as well as) close relatives.
Supporting Parents and their Teenagers
Glasgow Central Parenting Team has joined forces with the Partnership's North West Health Improvement Team's Youth Health Service (YHS) to offer a triage of support to young people and their parents/carers in the North West of Glasgow.
This joint work offers parents/carers the opportunity to attend a Teen Triple P parenting group where a crèche is provided and teenagers can access support from the YHS.
Getting Ready for Spring - Sun Awareness Training
North East Health Improvement Staff are making sure local children are ready for sunny spring weather by providing sun awareness training for nursery staff in the north east of Glasgow.
Skin cancer is on the rise, people should be sun aware from April to October. Statistics from Cancer Research UK show that melanoma skin cancer is the 5th most common cancer in the UK, accounting for 4% of all new cancer cases in 2015.
Tomorrows Women Celebrate International Women's Day 2018
A fantastic day was had by the Tomorrows Women service users and staff team on 8 March - International Women’s Day 2018.
Tomorrows Women Glasgow are a multi-disciplinary team who work with women involved in the criminal justice system who are repeat offenders with very complex needs. Our team are from Social Work, NHSGGC Mental Health and Psychology Service, Wheatley Housing Group, and the Scottish Prison Service.