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April 2020
Digitally Healthy: Members Zoom Meeting
VHS are hosting a joint meeting with NES Digital Service- NHS National Education Scotland, to discuss the digital divide implications of Covid-19 on health. VHS and NHS NES are keen to hear how third sector organisations and the people they support are affected by the way the current crisis is driving many services and activities online. What is the impact of this for people with no or little access to digital technology, or who cannot easily understand or use digital…
May 2020
Health Inequalities Cross Party Group: Drugs, Deprivation, Discrimination and Disease
Due to Covid-19 concerns, all events may possibly be cancelled or postponed. We are not taking new bookings for events at this time. We will update all those who have booked on events. The Health Inequalities Cross Party Group will meet on the 14th May to discuss Drugs, Deprivation, Discrimination and Disease. This meeting will be chaired by Donald Cameron MSP, Co-Convenor of the group. Brian Whittle MSP will present his research at the meeting alongside Charlene McKellar from Glasgow…
Digitally Healthy: Health Literacy and Health Inequalities
Due to Covid-19 concerns, all events may possibly be cancelled or postponed. We are not taking new bookings for events at this time. We will update all those who have booked on events. NES Digital Service (NDS) and Voluntary Health Scotland are partnering to run a joint event exploring the digital impact on health inequalities on the 21st May in Edinburgh at the Bayes Centre. The event will provide the opportunity to discuss a collective response to digital health inequalities…
November 2020
VHS Annual Conference & AGM 2020
Join us in Glasgow on 4th November for #WeArePublicHealth: Creating Health and Wellbeing for All. So far, the approach to tackling Scotland’s health inequalities and other public health challenges has not delivered the significant changes we need. With the advent of Public Health Scotland and a national set of public health priorities, is Scotland now set to re-focus its approach on prevention, protection and improvement of the nation’s health? What does ‘public health’ mean for the third sector and what…