Our News

This comprehensive report provides an in-depth look at our achievements, progress, and key milestones over the past year. 

Work has started on Aberdeen’s first purpose-built complex care accommodation for vulnerable people. 

People with learning disabilities are showcasing the digital devices which benefit their daily lives during a week-long public event in Aberdeen city centre – find out more here.

Have you ever thought how well you’d be able to cope if your power went off? Would it have a real impact on your day-to-day life?

Please note that from 1^st April 2024 any applicant referring to the Community Alarm Telecare service that requires:

• the Bon Accord Care responder service as their only contact
• to add the responder service on as an additional contact as they don’t have enough personal contacts
• to add the responder service on as a last contact to assist someone in the house with lifting

will be required to provide and install their own key safe. 

ACHSCP and Bon Accord Care Achieve Digital Telecare Award

Digital Telecare for Scottish Local Government were delighted to confirm that Aberdeen City Council Health and Social Care Partnership and Bon Accord Care have been awarded the Bronze Digital Telecare Implementation Award in recognition of the progress they have made on their analogue to digital telecare transition project.

10:30am-12pm, 13 December 2023
via Microsoft Teams

10am-11:30am, Wednesday 6 December 2023
Via Microsoft Teams

10am-11:30am, Wednesday 29 November 2023 at Dyce Community Centre

Health and social care services in Aberdeen have linked up in a new deal with a city housing association to help keep people safe and sound in their homes.

North East Sensory Services  

North East Sensory Services (NESS) is an independent, local charity delivering the first integrated joint sensory service in Scotland.  

#WorldSocialWorkDay aims not only to showcase the achievements of social work, but also to highlight its synergies with social development: shared commitments to social justice, inclusive development, and human rights. 

Aberdeen City Council is using National Adult Support and Protection Day to call for greater awareness of adults who are at risk of harm.

Today’s special day (Mon 20 Feb) is designed to highlight the risk of physical, psychological, financial or sexual harm for adults who may be unable to safeguard themselves.

In 2022 the National Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) published its Winter Outlook report, which raised the remote prospect of ‘planned’ emergency power cuts to manage potentially reduced energy supplies from Europe this winter.

Aberdeen City Health & Social Partnership have created a new GP Practice video.

Are you aware of older people who are apprehensive about rising bills and who are struggling to keep warm and eat properly?

Adult Support and Protection biennial report 2020/22

A campaign has been launched by Aberdeen City Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP) to help prevent avoidable deaths and hospitalisations from drug overdoses across the city.

Scottish mental health charity SAMH will continue to deliver the Aberdeen City Link Practitioner Service
until 2027.

NHS Grampian is to provide care management teams with direct access to healthcare records, to improve care planning for people across the region. At present, social care teams in Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, and Moray must request information from NHS staff. During the trial, care management teams will be able to access the data – stored on a system called TrakCare - directly.

The Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) has collaborated with local authority teams, advice providers, food aid organisations and other local stakeholders to co-produce cash first referral leaflets as straightforward resources both for people facing money worries and support workers. 

The Aberdeen City Integration Scheme is required under the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act (2014).   It details the various governance arrangements that exist between the Integration Joint Board and the two parent organisations – Aberdeen City Council and NHS Grampian.  

A new Carers Strategy for Aberdeen is now out for public consultation.

‘A City for All Carers’ Draft Aberdeen City Carer Strategy - Consultation

Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP) are responsible for developing a strategy for supporting Carers in Aberdeen. This includes both Adult and Young Carers.

The second Aberdeen Health and Wellbeing Festival will be held on Saturday 01 October at the Sir Ian Wood Building, Robert Gordon University (RGU), Garthdee Road, Aberdeen, AB10 7GJ. 

September is Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Month and Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership wants to remind people that alcohol exposure during pregnancy is the cause of FASD which is a lifelong, ‘hidden disability’ that affects 1 in 20 children born in Scotland.

Following approval at the Integration Joint Board (IJB) on 30^th August 2022, Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP) is issuing a tender for the Link Practitioners Service. This service will provide a social prescribing service to those presenting at primary care services with socio-economic challenges that are impacting on their health.

Aberdeen City Alcohol and Drug Partnership has run a series of life-saving training sessions to mark International Overdose Awareness Day (Aug 31).

Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership’s latest annual report has been approved for publication by the city’s Integration Joint Board.

Award-winning charity Sport Aberdeen is ecstatic to successfully secure £10,000 of funding from Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP)’s Health Improvement Fund.

If you need travel vaccinations for your next holiday, you can arrange these at one of 35 community pharmacies across Grampian.

A new Frailty Pathway animation highlights our commitment to provide the right care, in the right place for older people.

Menopause support in Aberdeen

Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP) together with Aberdeen FC Community Trust would like to invite you to their popular Meno & Pause Co-lab Café, at Aberdeen Football Club on Thursday 14 July at 10.30am.

Calsayseat Medical Group is delighted to advise that they are working with River Dee Medical Group to explore ways to develop their practices for the future.

During the pandemic, the Scottish Government issued guidance, recommending patient moves between GP practices be paused, except where individuals/households had moved outwith practice boundaries or were new arrivals to the area. From 1 June 2022 this guidance will be withdrawn.

Dementia Awareness Week – Monday 30 May - Sunday 5 June

People who develop early onset dementia in their 40s, 50s or early 60s, or sometimes younger, often have different needs from older people. For example, they may still be working when they are diagnosed, they may have a young family, and their financial situation may be different.

Dementia Awareness Week – Monday 30 May - Sunday 05 June

Thanks to the Aberdeen City Memories programme there is a range of regular activities and events held across the City and Shire for people living with dementia.

Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership together with Aberdeen FC Community Trust will host a nutrition-packed buffet event from 10.30am on Thursday 16 June as part of their Meno & Pause Co-lab Café series.

#DementiaAwareness Week 2022 – Mon 30 May - Sun 5 June

Bon Accord Care Occupational Therapy (OT) department has played a key role in Bill and Anne’s dementia journey over the past three years, enabling Bill to stay at home for as long as possible.

Families and friends trying to provide support and care for a person with dementia can find it devastating. That person may be a parent, spouse or friend who has been known and respected and it is difficult to watch the deterioration of someone who has been the mainstay of a family.

Date : Monday 30 May - Sunday 5 June

The aim of the week is to raise awareness of dementia and help improve the lives of people with dementia, their families and carers. This year's theme is 'Let's Prevent, Care, Cure dementia together'.

Collaborative Commissioning Workshops

The Aberdeen City Links Practitioners Service contract is due to end on 31 March 2023. Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership is undertaking a collaborative commissioning process to develop the tender specification document for the new Links Practitioner Service contract.

Parkinson’s Awareness Week (Sunday 10 April – Saturday 16 April) aims to raise awareness about this potentially devastating condition.

Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP) together with Aberdeen FC Community Trust would like to invite you to the second Meno & Pause Co-lab Café, at 10.30am on Thursday 14 April in the Legends Lounge at Aberdeen Football Club.

The consultation period for Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (ACHSCP) Strategic Plan for 2022 to 2025 has been extended to Monday 04 April 2022 to allow further public participation.

A plan to transfer four GP practices in Aberdeen from being run by Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP) to being independently managed by GPs reached fruition on Tuesday March 01.

The Nurse Practitioner service at the Healthy Hoose, which has been one of the services on offer to the communities of Middlefield, Cummings Park, Northfield and Heathryfold in Aberdeen for more than 20 years, is to temporarily close on Tuesday 01 March 2022.

An Aberdeen partnership has recently launched a new project to draw attention to the importance of strength and balance training for preventing falls. 

To mark National Adult Support and Protection Day 2022 (Sunday 20 February) people in Aberdeen are being asked to keep an eye out for things that don’t look right, and to report concerns as an adult protection referral.

The Keep Growing Aberdeen Project (KGA) evaluation report sets out the evidence for the impact of the project in the delivery of local priorities aimed at:

• Improving physical health and mental wellbeing of people,
• Maximising disused outdoor space to increase food growing opportunities,
• Supporting local volunteering opportunities beyond the pandemic and improving community food growing spaces by 2023.

We are delighted to present for consultation Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership’s Strategic Plan for 2022 to 2025.