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Best Start Foods: making the most of the Healthy Start reform
Join Nourish Scotland and Voluntary Health Scotland on 22nd May to discuss how the reform of Healthy Start into Best Start Foods in Scotland can best benefit our low-income families. We will hear from the Scottish Government’s Welfare Foods team about their proposals for a new Best Start Foods scheme, and from Sandra Passmore from Birmingham City Council about their fantastic work trying to understand and break the barriers to Healthy Start uptake in Birmingham. The aim of this event…
Joint Cross Party Group Meeting: Health Inequalities and Improving Scotland’s Health
The Cross-Party Group on Health Equalities and the Cross-Party Group on Improving Scotland’s Health 2021 and Beyond are delighted to invite you to a joint meeting on Tuesday 22 May from 5.30pm to 7pm in Committee Room 4 of The Scottish Parliament. The meeting will explore health inequalities and the right to health, with a particular focus on unhealthy environments and empowering communities to improve their health. We have two excellent speakers: Dr Niamh Shortt, Reader in Health Geography and…
Tomorrow’s World Today: New Frontiers in Mental Health
Tomorrow’s World Today: New Frontiers in Mental Health New date announced: Thursday 14th June! How is our technologically enabled, globalised and digital society changing our understanding of mental health and wellbeing? Can we predict what a society with good mental health will look like in 10, 20 or 50 years’ time? Is there evidence that we are adapting and developing new attitudes, strategies and technologies for looking after our mental wellbeing? Or is our uncertain, unequal and fast changing world…
VHS Annual Conference and AGM 2018
Save the date! This year’s Annual Conference and AGM will take place on Tuesday 20th November, at the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh. “Get The Picture: Culture, Health and Wellbeing” Our conference theme will be culture, arts and health and we will announce further details from May 2018 onwards. We are holding a ‘Health Eats Culture for Breakfast’ round table with key stakeholders in April to help us scope what looks set to be an exciting conference programme. Keep an eye on this…