This month Health Inequalities Volunteer James Evans met with Julie Carter who is the Ca(i)re Programme manager at The Eric Liddell Centre in Edinburgh. The Centre is a refurbished church, named after the 1924 Olympic Gold winning 400 metre runner Eric Liddell. Eric studied in Edinburgh and attended … [Read more...] about Eric Liddell Centre
Public Bodies Act – Draft Regulations – for consultation
The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 received Royal Assent on 1 April 2014. The aim of the Act is to integrate health and social care in Scotland, to improve services for people who use them. Integration aims to ensure that health and social care provision across Scotland is … [Read more...] about Public Bodies Act – Draft Regulations – for consultation
Health Inequalities Policy Review
Neil Findlay MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Well-Being initiated a Health Inequalities Policy Review Commission in May 2014. Chaired by Dr David Conway of the Socialist Health Association, this review aims to go beyond health service reform and take a broader approach to preventing, … [Read more...] about Health Inequalities Policy Review
Unequal Lives – children and the early years
On 13 May 2014, Voluntary Health Scotland and Children in Scotland jointly delivered the first seminar in the Unequal Lives, Unjust Deaths series of events, examining health inequalities across the life course and the voluntary sector contribution to reducing, preventing and reversing these. This … [Read more...] about Unequal Lives – children and the early years
Join our Health Inequalities Project!
Tackling Health Inequalities Together! Policy makers often ask us for evidence to show the impact of the work of the voluntary sector. We know that there is a lot of exceptional work in the voluntary sector to tackle health inequalities and that you are making a real difference to people’s … [Read more...] about Join our Health Inequalities Project!
Tullibody Healthy Living
This month Health Inequalities Volunteer James Evans met with Tracy Gibson the Community Development Worker at Tullibody Healthy Living. This is a voluntary based project who work in partnership with other agencies to provide access to many healthy living activities, as well as providing support on … [Read more...] about Tullibody Healthy Living
See Hear: new strategic framework for meeting the needs of people with sensory impairment in Scotland
Voluntary Health Scotland Associate Member and Learning to Lead in Health participant John Gill gives his overview of an important new framework: See Hear: A Strategic Framework for meeting the needs of people with a sensory impairment in Scotland was launched by the Scottish Government on 24th … [Read more...] about See Hear: new strategic framework for meeting the needs of people with sensory impairment in Scotland
Digital Inclusion for Health: First new website launched
Member organisation Safe Space, who were the first participants in our Digital Inclusion for Health Project, have launched their new website today. Pauline McGhee, Manager at Safe Space said: Working with VHS and the graphics.coop has been a great experience. We are all delighted with the … [Read more...] about Digital Inclusion for Health: First new website launched
Ministerial Task Force publishes second review of Equally well
The Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities published its second review of Equally Well on Thursday 13 March 2014. The first review in 2010 focussed on how well agencies were responding to the principles set out in Equally Well. This second review looks at: the way that people and … [Read more...] about Ministerial Task Force publishes second review of Equally well
Innovation in dementia support
This month James Evans, Health Inequalities Volunteer met with Sue Northrop. Sue has personal experience of caring for close family members with dementia and is a member of the North Berwick Day Centre Voluntary Management Committee. After many years working on public service reform in the Scottish … [Read more...] about Innovation in dementia support
