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40% Funding cuts to our West Dun CLW team will have a devastating impact on the people & communities they support. increasing pressure on local services including GPs. Very short term thinking. #CLW#fundingcuts
Well done to our two finalists in @nalwuk Links Worker of the Year 💚 Might not have won but always winners in our eyes. 🏆 Great time had and almost home despite the trains delays! 😅 #burst@LWPmakeslinks@ALLIANCEScot#makeslinks
Glad we could contribute at this event, partnership with @SGNgas has allowed Community Links Practitioners in Glasgow to directly support families and individuals in fuel poverty, increasing awareness also of people at risk of CO poisoning.
#makeslinks
🤝 Over the years, we've forged strong partnerships with likeminded organisations to support vulnerable people.
💡 Yesterday, more than 20 of our partners joined us to share their experiences, share best practices and to network with one another.
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📢 The Self Management Fund is open for applications!
Self Management for Life will make £1.8 million available for organisations supporting self management.
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"General practice is really difficult at the best of times, but link workers have made such a difference in volume management".
Dr Victoria Shotton warns the proposed cuts "could result in lives being lost".
@shotts1983@ALLIANCEScot@deependgp
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If you haven't done so yet, please take some time to sign this petition.
Stop the cuts to community link workers and help secure their long-term future within GP practice teams.
@deependgp#makeslinks#socialprescribing
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Petition: Stop the cuts to community link workers and help secure their position long-term within GP practice teams https://t.co/iVSng8AIbx We need you by our side to keep doing what we know best- tackle inequalities by supporting people in the most deprived areas of the city.
I can’t say it any clearer than I have here. As a deep end practice, our patients, our team and our community need our full-time CLP.
@HumzaYousaf@MathesonMichael@deependgp
“Having a CLP has been the biggest (and quite possibly the only) positive change since the new contract for both patients and staff”. @HumzaYousaf please take note @deependgp.
Deep End GP support of Glasgow Community Links Practitioners https://t.co/oWNbqO91Zh
For this week's Inside the NHS, I take a look at the row over #communitylinks cuts and the #inversecarelaw@deependgp@NalwScotland
ANALYSIS How can we solve health inequalities when resources keep flowing away from the poorest patients with most needs? https://t.co/oYWezOWzmJ
Cuts to the number of community links workers embedded in GP practices in Glasgow will have a "catastrophic" impact on patients in the most deprived areas, doctors have warned. @COPEScotland@Christy_Melam @BillKiddSNP @CMonaghanSNP@DaniGaravelli1@mmccallum81 @drum_cycle
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