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Raising Awareness of Bowel Cancer

April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. Bowel cancer is Scotland’s third most common cancer but it is treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early. Nearly everyone diagnosed at the earliest stage will survive bowel cancer but this drops significantly as the disease develops. 

Partnership Staff Teams get First and Second Place in SASW Social Work Team of the Year Award 2018 

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership Staff received two Awards in the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) Awards for Best Practice in 2017. 

The Award for Social Work Team of the Year was won by the Partnership’s Family Group Decision Making Team, with a highly commended for the same award for the Partnership’s Families for Children and Asylum/Roma Team.

Art Project Raises Awareness of Domestic Abuse

Recovery Empowers North East Women's Group (Renew) were awarded funding for an art project, by the Violence Against Women Implementation Group (VAWIG), as part of the yearly 16 days of Action to eliminate violence against women campaign.

 

Launch of New Recovery Aftercare Centre in South Glasgow

The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, officially opened the new South Community Recovery Network (SCRN) Aftercare Centre in the Gorbals, South Glasgow on Friday 27 April 2018.

NHS turns 70 this year

We will use this area to keep you updated with events held by Partnership staff to celebrate 70 years of the NHS.

Hamish Allan Centre - closure

From 4 September 2018, the Hamish Allan Centre will close and all the services based in this building will be re-located.

GCHSCP Staff Awards for Excellence 2018

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s Staff Awards for Excellence Awards Ceremony took place on 14 September in Glasgow City Chambers.

Sandyford Staff Helping Refugees in Syria

Since May, two staff within Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership have been working to help organise collections of warm winter clothing, school supplies and personal care items to be delivered this winter to refugees in Syria.

New Project to help Children Thrive Launched

Local networks to help children under five years of age and their families to eat healthily and maintain a healthy weight are being set up now across three neighbourhoods in Glasgow.

The two-year ‘Thrive Under 5’ project is an exciting early intervention programme that aims to enable a healthy weight in the early years (pre-five years) using a wider child poverty perspective.  

Childhood Immunisation Teams Successfully Deliver Flu Vaccination Campaign

Immunisations help protect against serious, vaccine preventable diseases. Once we’ve been immunised, our bodies are better able to fight these diseases if we come into contact with them.