Glasgow City Food Plan Now Launched

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is delighted to be a key partner in the newly launched Glasgow City Food Plan (GCFP). The 10-year plan is collaborative, holistic and establishes meaningful work to make the food system in Glasgow more sustainable, equitable and healthy.

At the launch event on 15 June, over 300 delegates tuned in online to hear about the details of the plan, its relevance and connections to other work in Glasgow. Delegates also saw some snapshots of actions already being implemented.

Message from Susanne Millar - Partnership Matters Briefing - July 2021

June saw us celebrate Carers Week up and down the country, highlighting the importance of unpaid carers, with this year’s theme being ‘Making Caring Visible and Valued’.

Glasgow's Caring Community - Carers Strategy Implementation Update 2021

Last month, from 7 - 13 June 2021, we celebrated national Carers Week to highlight the importance of unpaid carers by ‘Making Caring Visible and Valued’. To mark Carers Week, Glasgow Local Carers Centres organised a calendar of events for all unpaid carers to attend, from cream teas to fancy hat garden parties. 

Glasgow Supported Carer Service Recruiting

Could you open your home and your heart to help us support Care Experienced Young People? Could you work with them to give them the skills to flourish and to look forward to a future living independently?

Young people who are leaving care can feel scared or anxious about living alone and need someone who can provide support, guidance and reassurance.  Our Glasgow Supported Carer Service are looking to recruit Supported Carers across the city who can help these young people learn the practical skills required for adult life.

Partnership Matters Briefing - July 2021

New Mural Brings Life to Leverndale Hospital

A stunning new mural has been unveiled at Glasgow’s Leverndale Hospital as part of a wider project to transform the campus, improving both indoor and outdoor spaces, increasing greenspace and biodiversity and improving the environment for our patients, staff and the local community.

Help for New Mums - New Telephone Breastfeeding Support Service

A new pilot telephone breastfeeding peer support service is being offered to support pregnant and new mums living in Glasgow City.  

New Nature Reserve Opens Near Woodside Health and Care Centre

Celebrations took place on the afternoon of Saturday, 31 July to mark the opening of the Claypits Glasgow Inner City Reserve at Hamiltonhill in the north of the city.  Local residents, community groups and politicians turned up for a fun-filled day.

The Claypits is a 6.7-hectare green space, home to an array of plants, trees and wildlife including roe deer, peregrine falcons, whitethroat warblers and a host of waterfowl.

Glasgow Takes Part in Research into Creation of Drug Checking Services

Glasgow's Alcohol and Drug Partnership is working with the University of Stirling to explore how drug checking services could be developed to reduce harms in Scotland.

The city is one of three taking part in the research led by Professor Tessa Parkes. Addictions specialists in Dundee and Aberdeen are also contributing to the study, which received funding from the Drugs Deaths Taskforce - a body established by the Scottish Government in 2019 to prevent drug deaths in Scotland.

Community Support Service for Older People with Dementia Expands Across Glasgow

Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Community Support Service for older people with dementia has operated in the North East of Glasgow for 25 years. The service supports older people with a diagnosis of dementia to stay in their own homes and give respite to family and carers.