Doctors in some of Glasgow's poorest communities are warning they will not be able to do their jobs if planned cuts to link workers go ahead.
Glasgow's Health and Social Care Partnership - which employs the CLWs - said it was struggling with "very significant financial challenges" and was looking to reduce the number of link workers from 64 to 42. The title is a big clue to the job. A link worker is the connection between social issues such as debt, unemployment, isolation and physical symptoms such as anxiety and depression.
Watching it in action in Drumchapel, you can see just how well it works to have the link worker a couple of doors away from the doctor. The link workers are often based in Deep End GP practices, which are located in areas of the highest deprivation.She believes she "wouldn't have got the help elsewhere".
With health inequalities worsening in the last decade, GPs say services like these should be expanding, not reducing, and that any cuts will only further fuel demand on an already stretched health service. "If we are not immediately available, that support can't happen, for example that immediacy of someone needing support from a food bank and that referral.She added that link workers were able to draw on a wide breadth of experience and knowledge from each other, and that any loss to the workforce would have a "serious impact".
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