Standing by and ready to help Veterans in Dunbartonshire and elsewhere.
By Lucy Ashton
The local health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC), is partnering with Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) to provide welfare support to veterans and their families receiving care in NHSGGC hospitals.
Julie Murray, Chief Officer of East Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership and the NHSGGC Armed Forces and Veterans Champion, said:
“NHSGGC is committed to honouring its pledge to the Armed Forces Covenant, which it signed on 7 March 2022. An extension of this pledge is a commitment to provide welfare support to veterans undergoing treatment in our hospitals. Partnering with DMWS who provide specialist welfare services, means that those who have served in our Armed Forces now have access to DMWS Welfare Officers, who can provide tailored, specialist support to those who need it.”
DMWS Welfare Officers work with the patient when their medical needs are being met but other issues, problems or social influences may be distracting them from recovery. They can help navigate the healthcare pathway, unlocking solutions to improve wellbeing and in time to discharge and going home. This comprehensive and confidential medical welfare service supports patients, their immediate family, primary care givers and healthcare professionals.
This initiative has been made possible using funding primarily from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, which has also allowed NHS Lothian to implement this service.
If you would like to know more or to access this service please contact:
National Response Service Helpline: 0800 999 3697
Email referrals: referrals@dmws.org.uk
Welfare Officer, Samantha Wilkie: swilkie@dmws.org.uk
Top picture: Veterans parade in Dumbarton. Picture by Bill Heaney
Yeah! This is another great idea. Our island is under attack on every front. We’re surrounded by the enemy. The Latinos and Cubans are invading from the West. The Russians are coming in from the North and East. The Africans are coming up from the South. And the Asians are coming in from the Middle East and China. Buckle up…we have to save the last bastion of freedom, democracy and human rights. Except….it’s the other way round. We’re the enemy and we’ve been killing, maiming and displacing people on an industrial scale. We’ve put our armed forces in harms way all along. We’re the terrorists because we’ve backed, armed and funded them all the way, to do what we wanted.
Just now Lafarge, the French cement company, has been fined for supporting the head choppers in Syria. We are allies with the French. We’re both on the UN Security Council. We’re both NATO members. That is the problem with hiding the truth, it all comes out in the end. What are the British trouble makers doing interfering in the internal affairs of other people in other countries? It’s all going to come out.
Lafarge guilty of supporting terrorism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZQaIrQ6S20
UK backed the Syrian Opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coalition_of_Syrian_Revolutionary_and_Opposition_Forces