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Understanding the Deaf Patient Experience: Combatting Loneliness and Isolation

For Loneliness Awareness Week (9 to 15 June,) we’re highlighting help for our Deaf patients to help combat loneliness and isolation.

Imagine being on holiday and falling ill. You find yourself needing medical attention, only to discover that most of the health and social care staff cannot communicate with you. You struggle to understand and feel isolated and powerless. This scenario is temporary for most, but for Deaf people, particularly British Sign Language (BSL) users, it’s a daily reality.

Glasgow City HSCP Staff recognised at NHSGGC Celebrating Success Awards

Huge congratulations to the Thistle Project Team who were announced as the overall winner of the Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) Staff Awards For Excellence (SAFE) at the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) Celebrating Success Awards, which took place on 28 May 2025.

The Thistle Project Team had already won our Innovation of the Year award at our HSCP SAFE Awards in March for its groundbreaking role delivering the UK’s first Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF).

Glasgow City HSCP marks Mental Health Awareness Week

Our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) joined organisations across the UK in marking Mental Health Awareness Week 2025, reaffirming its commitment to promoting mental wellbeing among staff, service users, and the wider community.

New national campaign encourages people to consider fostering

A nationwide recruitment campaign to help find more foster carers has been launched, and people across Glasgow are being encouraged to consider if they could provide a safe, supportive foster home for a child or young person. 

The Scottish Government campaign aims to support the recruitment of more local authority foster carers. It hopes to raise awareness of the benefits of fostering and encourage more people to consider if they could support a child or young person in the care system. 

First Minister visits Glasgow GP taking part in family wellbeing project

First Minister John Swinney visited a GP practice in Easterhouse to hear about Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)’s project to improve family wellbeing, by making it easier to access support services.

Mr Swinney joined Dr Lesley Thomson KC, Chair NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Board and Suzanne Niven, our HSCP’s Health Improvement Manager to meet GP Practice staff at Oakwood Medical Practice on 9 June.

Making it Happen: helping people with complex mental health needs live well in the community

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) has taken a bold step to tackle a long-standing challenge — supporting people with severe and enduring mental ill health to move out of hospital and into the community.

The ‘Making It Happen’ project was created to help individuals who have spent many years in hospital, often due to failed attempts at community placements, to finally find a place they could call home.

Time to talk - breaking mental health stigma

Twenty organisations from across north east Glasgow have been working together to tackle mental health stigma.

A six-part podcast by Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)’s  North East Health Improvement Team and East End Community Radio featuring over 30 local voices is now available. The podcasts promote open conversations around mental health and were developed as part of the national Time to Talk Day campaign.

Join us for Meander for Mental Health 2025 on Saturday 13 September

Come and join us on the grounds of Leverndale Hospital for the sixth year of Meander for Mental Health! This year’s event will take place on Saturday 13 September and will offer the opportunity to explore our beautiful grounds, as well as green spaces in Crookston and the surrounding areas. With free events and activities happening all day, from guided walks to running, yoga, tai chi, dance and face painting, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. New for this year are alpacas, therapet and reiki.

University of Strathclyde launches Suicide Prevention Strategy with support from Glasgow City HSCP

The University of Strathclyde has launched a pioneering and compassionate Suicide Prevention Strategy, aiming to create a suicide-safer university community where prevention is embedded into everyday life, stigma is challenged and timely support is readily available for those in distress or bereaved by suicide.

Two of our residential care homes rated ‘very good’ in latest inspection

Two of our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Residential Care Homes have been praised in their most recent inspections carried out by the Care Inspectorate.

Riverside Care Home and Victoria Gardens Care Home each received a rating of ‘Very Good’ across all key areas during the unannounced visits in June and July 2025.