The team based at Hunter Street in Glasgow’s East End won the hotly contested People’s Choice Award in recognition of their frontline work with some of the city’s most vulnerable people during the pandemic.

The public voted in support of the flexibility and resilience of staff who rose to the huge challenges of delivering health and social care to homeless people with complex needs such as addictions issues and mental health problems over past 18 months.

Jim McBride, head of Homeless Services at Glasgow’s Health & Social Care Partnership, congratulated staff who learned of their success at an awards ceremony in Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange.

He said: “I’m absolutely over the moon for the team. This award is really well deserved recognition of the incredible dedication and commitment they displayed while working tirelessly in extremely challenging circumstances throughout the pandemic.”

The prestigious Scottish Health Awards recognise those working across NHS Scotland and its partners to deliver high quality health and social care to the people of Scotland.

Run by the Daily Record in partnership with NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government, the awards recognise those who go the extra mile to improve the health and wellbeing of others.

The other finalists in the People’s Choice category were:- the Scottish Ambulance Service; FV Primary Care Multi-Disciplinary Team, NHS Forth Valley; Home-Start North Lanarkshire, NHS North Lanarkshire; Lisa Watt, Shetland Health & Social Care Partnership and NHS Fife Community Listening Service Volunteers.