Ann Volunteers to Help set up Covid Assessment Centre – Making a Real Difference

Ann Forsyth is a Programme Manager, Primary Care Improvement Plan for Glasgow City HSCP, who is currently the Service Manager at the new COVID-19 Assessment Centre in Barr Street in North West Glasgow.

Help to stop smoking is still at the end of the phone

Local NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGG&C) Quit Your Way stop smoking services are still operating across Glasgow. Staff from the South Health Improvement Team of Glasgow City HSCP have been working with Sunny Govan Radio to promote the service and let local people know how they can access help to quit.

The radio station has interviewed smoking cessation advisor Laura Sinclair to find out about how we are running the Quit Your Way service during lockdown and about how people are coping during the pandemic.

Glasgow Recovery Communities Step Up to the Mark during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Volunteers, who run recovery cafes and initiatives in Glasgow, have stepped up during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to support themselves and other people to help maintain abstinence from drugs and alcohol.

Supported by Glasgow Recovery Services, the volunteers are facilitating on-line meetings and activities three times a day, seven days a week helping people to sustain recovery from drugs and alcohol, maintain their mental health and reduce isolation by staying connected.

Green Fingered Staff and Service Users

Staff and service users at the Glasgow City HSCP Chara Centre in Possilpark have been using the good weather during lockdown to maintain the centre’s garden. 

The social work centre provides emergency homeless accommodation for 27 females from all walks of life and cultures.

New Film about Gender Friendly Nursery Programme

A new short film launched by the Gender Friendly Nursery programme aims to promote awareness of the impact of gender stereotypes on what children believe they can and can’t do, how they should dress and behave, and what society expects of them.

Glasgow's Thriving Places Programme Shortlisted for International Award

Glasgow has been shortlisted for an award in a top international competition.

The Wellbeing Cities Award, organised by NewCities in partnership with Novo Nordisk, the City of Montréal, the Toyota Mobility Foundation, and Transdev, recognises cities across the world which are placing their residents' wellbeing at the heart of urban policy and planning - and Glasgow is one of them.

New £60 Million Hub at Parkhead - Your Chance to Ask Questions

Local residents are being given the opportunity to ask questions about the new £60 million state-of-the-art Health and Social Care Hub planned for Parkhead.

Glasgow City HSCP Occupational Therapy Competencies featured in National Publication

The development of competencies for Occupational Therapists (OTs) working across health and social care in Glasgow City HSCP has again been highlighted as an example of good practice, with a feature in the August 2020 edition of OT News. This is a membership only publication from the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.

Virtual Baby Group Supports New Parents

With the outbreak of COVID 19, Glasgow City HSCP’s Children and Families Health Visiting Teams in South Glasgow have adapted practice to meet the needs of families. This has included new and innovative ways of working.

When Scotland was put into lock down, new mums and new-borns had limited contact with the outside world. The teams worried that the lack of support for families may lead to feelings of isolation, potentially increasing mental health problems for new mothers which has a negative impact on infant health.

Live Music a Boost for Patients and Staff 

You would have been forgiven for thinking you had wandered into a live gig in Kelvingrove Park, if you had been walking through the Gartnavel Royal Hospital campus on Thursday 13 August.

Local musician and a regular performer within the Art in the Gart creative volunteer programme, Charlie Gorman performed his show, “Gorman on the Green”, to an outdoor audience of patients and staff from the hospital’s Kelvin ward and Clyde ward.