‘More than Medicine’ Lunch and Learn event – Learning Report

This Learning Report reflects on the first More than Medicine event, held in Renfrewshire, and offers tips on organising future such events.

Organised by the ALLIANCE’s Scotland’s House of Care Programme, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Engage Renfrewshire, the overarching aims for the ‘More than Medicine’ event in GP Cluster 5, Renfrewshire were that:

• Links between the third sector, community organisations and General Practice teams will be strengthened
• General Practice teams will have a better understanding of third sector services and organisations available in their local community
• General Practice teams will feel more confident in signposting to the third sector and how to bring the third sector into a General Practice environment
• Third sector teams and General Practice teams will know more about Scotland’s House of Care in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) and Engage Renfrewshire.

Underpinning the core aims of the event lay a wish to develop an approach that is transferrable to other practices, clusters and localities and to reflect on approaches that would allow relationships developed at this event to be strengthened and built on.

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