News - Health & social care
On 20 April, GCVS hosted a joint session with the Glasgow Centre for Population Health to discuss the recently published “Health in a Changing City” report. During the session, Bruce Whyte, Katharine Timpson and Mairi Young explored different sections of...Read more...
COVID Recovery – Why Networks Matter More Than Ever
Hilda Campbell, Chief Executive of COPE Scotland has written a guest blog for our ‘Recovery’ series. The Recovery series considers how we might we move forward from the COVID pandemic, and examines what this means for health and social care services,...Read more...
Health and health inequalities in Glasgow – Recovery Event with GCPH
GCVS is delighted to be working with the Glasgow Centre for Population Health to deliver this next event in our ‘Recovery’ series. In order to recover after the last two years of the pandemic, it’s vital that we understand the scale of the...Read more...
Bureaucracy, Battles and Budgets: Learning from the “Our World Reimagined – Social Care” Series
As GCVS launches a report outlining learning from the ‘Our World Reimagined – Social Care’ series, our Health and Social Care Coordinator talks about the challenge of ‘recovering equally’ from the COVID-19 pandemic and how this starts for...Read more...
Recovering Health and Care with Pennie Taylor
Interviewer became interviewee in the first ‘Recovery’ session held by the GCVS Health and Care team on 14 March. The ‘Recovery’ series will look at what matters to the voluntary sector and to those we work with as the country and our city,...Read more...
Health & Social Care in Glasgow – Join the Conversation UPDATE
As health and social care services emerge from the impact of the COVID pandemic, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership is inviting voluntary organisations and people who need and use these services to feed into its future plans. At a first, joint event on 2...Read more...
Recovering Health and Care Services
Recovering Health and Care Services Pennie Taylor, 8 March 2022 It is breath-taking to look back over the past couple of years and reflect on the learning curve. For me, the biggest revelations have involved the impact of the pandemic on social care – COVID starkly...Read more...
Recovery: What Next for Health and Social Care?
Our Health and Social Care Coordinator Lynn Williams discusses the current context for health and care, at a critical juncture in policy and service planning. This includes plans to reignite the Voluntary Sector Health and Care Network. Who are the Health and Social...Read more...
OWR Social Care – A Person Led Approach to Data in Social Care
GCVS, Mydex CIC and Scottish Care recently joined forces with GCVS for this fascinating instalment in the ‘Our World Reimagined – Social Care’ series on 15th November. You can access recording of this session here: Our World Reimagined – A...Read more...
GCVS and Strathclyde University Joint Co Production Event 25 Nov 2021 – Speaker Presentations
This joint event from GCVS and the University of Strathclyde sought to identify lessons and good practice during Scottish Co Production week. It was held on 25/11/21 with a truly international flavour! All of the presentations delivered have been pulled together...Read more...
A Budget for Recovery – What Now for Social Care?
Lynn Williams, Health and Social Care Coordinator for GCVS, blogs in advance of the upcoming Scottish Budget, looking at relevant messages coming from the ‘Our World Reimagined’ series and what needs to be included in the detail in early December. She calls for a...Read more...
GCVS Response to the National Care Service Consultation
Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) is pleased to have the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Government consultation on the proposed National Care Service. We welcome increasing recognition both in this consultation, and more broadly, of the national...Read more...
National Care Service – What Does it Mean for Children’s Services? 30 September 2021
Our next big “Our World Reimagined – Social Care” event will focus on the proposal to include children’s services within the remit of the National Care Service. This is included in the current Scottish Government consultation on setting up a...Read more...
Our World Reimagined – Can Feeley Lead to a Care Economy? 16 Sept, 2.00pm
We’re delighted to be running this event jointly with the Scottish Women’s Budget Group on 16th September. This next Our World Reimagined – Social Care session will consider the gender issues linked to social care and whether the Feeley Review and...Read more...
Agenda – Co Production and Feeley, Our World Reimagined Session, 24 August.
The agenda for our next ‘Our World Reimagined – Social Care’ session is now available. You can access this here – OWR Social Care Conversation Feeley and Co Production agenda 24 August 1.30Read more...