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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...