Votes decide community’s share of health and wellbeing funds
Winning Martyn’s Monday Club will use its funding to take members out on trips and organise activities like fishing.
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Pigeon droppings leave iconic building in disgrace
Birds and their dried dropping can carry more than 60 diseases.
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Figures show number of lost bed days in Western Isles
Western Isles Health Board spent more than £1.6 million keeping patients in hospital who could go home.
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‘Good to talk’ clubs reveal town’s greater need for suicide prevention
Martyn’s Monday Clubs are helping make lives tolerable for over 18s in the town struggling with mental health.
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Health and social care overspend increases again
There are warnings that a further £1.1m could be added to the Council’s overspend if a service agreement is not met with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
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Charges set to rise for residential and ‘sleepover’ care in Argyll and Bute
The area’s health and social care partnership is looking to increase sleepover care charges by 18 per cent to bring staff pay into line with the minimum wage.
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Argyll and Bute HSCP expresses support #smearforsmear campaign
For more information visit the website www.jostrust.org.uk or NHS Inform.
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Jill hopes to help smokers quit
Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) has appointed Jill Denton as a smoking cessation specialist.
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Iona aims to help people Beat the Blues
Beating the Blues is an online cognitive behavioural therapy course for the treatment of low to moderate anxiety and depression.
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Public have until February to voice views on health and care plan
The Integrated Joint Board of the Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership has just released its draft version of its strategic plan.