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Parkhead Hub Update – June 2024

A new exhibition at the Parkhead Forge shopping centre showcases Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) new Parkhead Hub Health and Care Centre and its creative engagement activity with local people.

Construction of the Hub is on track to be completed at the end of August. Following handover from the contractors, the building will be furnished, and IT installed. Staff will begin to transfer from January 2025 with patients and service users welcomed towards the end the month.

Glasgow bids to run drug-checking service at Hunter Street

An application to run a drug-checking pilot in Glasgow has been submitted to the UK Government Home Office.

Drug checking services enable people who use drugs to have their drugs chemically analysed and receive information on the content of submitted samples. Services are both confidential and anonymous. In addition to providing information about what is in a drug sample, trained staff can offer harm reduction advice and support, brief interventions and access to treatment services.

Meet Glasgow City HSCP

On 20 June Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)’s Social Care Commissioning Team, supported by the Supplier Development Programme, hosted an online event called ‘Meet Glasgow City HSCP’.

Restart - Supporting people with severe and enduring mental health conditions

Restart is an NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) mental health project that works with Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Community Mental Health Teams.

The project offers recovery-based support for people living with severe and enduring mental health conditions. Trainees are given the opportunity to take part in various vocational training activities to increase self-belief and build resilience. The programme helps around 250 people each year.

Update on Safer Drug Consumption Facility

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is working with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) and other partners to develop a pilot Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF). The service, which will be the first of its kind in the UK, will open later this year. We aim to reduce the harms associated with injecting drugs, and support people to access help to improve their lives and to reduce the negative impact that injecting outdoors has on local residents, communities and businesses.

Partnership project shows the importance of good data collection in predicting and preventing falls

For most of us if we’re healthy, falling over can lead to a skint knee, and if it happens in public, maybe a bit of embarrassment.

However, for some people, the lasting effects can be much more serious, leading to hospitalisation and often the beginning of a cycle of poor health or even a loss of their independence at home. Injuries caused by falls are a leading cause of hospital admission and death for those aged over 75. On average, there are over 4,000 hospital admissions in Glasgow each year due to a fall.

First breastfeeding friendly nursery in Glasgow City

TASK Family Support and Learning Centre in the Gorbals area has become the first early years establishment to fully sign up to the Breastfeeding Friendly Early Years Scheme in Glasgow City. The nursery is part of a pilot for the scheme, operating in Glasgow South and North East localities.
 
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) Health Improvement staff supported the nursery management and staff to implement the requirements of the scheme.

NHSGGC launches community food project at Glasgow hospital

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) has begun planting crops for a new community food project, and they hope to have the first harvest before winter sets in.

The project has been a number of months in the making, and earlier this week a group of staff, volunteers and external contractors came together at Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's Stobhill Hospital Mental Health Campus to work on a resource that will benefit patients but will also help people living in surrounding communities.

Lessons Learned Review of the Alliance to End Homelessness aims to shape future homelessness strategies

In January 2024, our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) commissioned Rocket Science to conduct an independent lessons learned review of the Glasgow Alliance to End Homelessness (GAEH).

The review, aimed at assessing the lessons learned during the Alliance's inception, delivery, and conclusion, has now been completed and the findings will help shape to shape future homelessness strategies in Glasgow.

Working together to prevent falls

During Falls Prevention Week 2024, over 16 to 20 September, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) staff organised a range of activities to raise awareness among staff and the public on how to prevent falls.

We made the short film to help spread the message.