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Glasgow Supported Employment Service Launches Improving Modern Apprenticeship Programme

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Glasgow Supported Employment Service has been supporting people with autism and / or learning disabilities into paid work for the past 12 years.

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.

PrescQIPP is an independent not-for-profit organisation, funded by the NHS, which supports the NHS to improve medicines-related care to patients through robust, accessible, evidence-based resources. 

Virtual Afternoon Tea for Centenarian Service Users

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Home Care service hosted a ‘virtual afternoon tea’ this month for service users aged 100 years and over.

Glasgow’s Community Link Worker Programme Expands

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

A Community Link Worker (CLW) is part of the GP practice team and supports patients with a wide range of non-medical issues that may be affecting their health and wellbeing. This includes things like: money worries; housing; mental health and wellbeing and loneliness and isolation. CLWs connect people to a diverse range of supports and services across Glasgow.

Sharing Experiences of Supporting Carers in Glasgow and Catalonia

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

Xabier Ballesteros Olazabal, Director of the Social Services Centre, Barcelona Council has been living in Glasgow, researching for his doctorate.  Xabier was a community development worker in Catalonia and founding member of the community mutual support group, ‘La Colla Cuidadora’ [The Carer Gang]. 

Green Wynd Staff Respond to Challenges Posed by COVID-19

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. 

Our HSCP Services are Community Champions

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.

Our HSCP’s Health Improvement Quit Your Way staff won this year’s Citywide Uniformed Services Award, and our HSCP Homelessness Services staff at the Chara Centre were finalists for the North West Area Public Service Award. 

Therapeutic Activities Contributing to Patient Care at Leverndale Hospital

Leverndale Hospital offers Mental Health Inpatient care to adults with a range of complex mental health difficulties in the South of Glasgow. Patients benefit from having a motivated, innovative and dedicated group of staff consistently providing a diverse range of therapeutic activity across the hospital site.

Housing First Delivers Almost 250 Glasgow Tenancies for Homeless People 

Former bar worker, Fraser, is starting a new life in a secure settled tenancy after experiencing homelessness on and off since his teens. Four weeks ago, the 44-year-old got the keys to a flat in North West Glasgow where he is settling in and planning a brighter future.

Thanks to Glasgow's Housing First programme, which provides people with tenancies and intensive wraparound support, he plans to make this flat a permanent home.

HSCP’s Bereavement and Loss Training Recognised Nationally

New ways of delivering training covering the topics of loss, grief and bereavement to educational staff in Glasgow have been recognised at the recent national NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Bereavement Conference.

A Glasgow City Working Group consisting of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Health Improvement staff, Glasgow Psychological Services and The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice came together to adapt and deliver training to education staff in Glasgow during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.