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May 2020
CPG on Health Inequalities: Impact of COVID-19 on Health Inequalities
As Secretariat to the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities VHS is pleased to announce the group’s first online meeting on Thursday 14th May 2020. Anas Sarwar MSP, Co-Convenor of the CPG will chair. The meeting will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on health inequalities in Scotland, with guest speaker Diane Stockton, Acting Director of Place and Wellbeing, Public Health Scotland. There will also be brief inputs from Sarah Hill and Kavari Qureshi, of the Global Health Policy Unit,…
Ageing Well: Virtual Talk with the Open University
Join VHS and the Open University for the first in series of joint online events exploring ageing, health and wellbeing. Led by Dr Jitka Všetečková who currently works at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University. Jitka undertakes research in Public Health with special interest in Ageing, Dementia, Exercise and Mental Health. In this series we are exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain a well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular…
April 2020
VHS & ACOSVO Joint Zoom Meeting: Health Leaders
VHS are teaming up with ACOSVO to bring together third sector leaders of health organisations to discuss the impact of Covid- 19. Join us on Monday 27th April at 12pm to this virtual meet up to discuss leadership with a particular focus on leading for health at this uncertain and turbulent time. This meeting is open to VHS members who have a leadership role in their organisation. Book here on Eventbrite. Please get in touch with Lauren Blair if you…
Impact of COVID-19 on Voluntary Health Organisations: Members zoom meeting
Join us on zoom to discuss the findings in our briefing paper about the voluntary health sector responses to COVID-19. VHS has conducted a survey of our member organisations and wider network to help establish the impact COVID-19 is having on the health and wellbeing of people supported by organisations and on organisations’ own ability to continue supporting people. This briefing sets out the top-line results of the research and highlights the speed, creativity and flexibility that the third sector…
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…
VHS 2nd Members Meet up: Zoom
VHS 2nd Members Meet Up on Zoom Wednesday 1 April at 2-3pm VHS would like to invite you to our first virtual members meet up on Wednesday 1 April at 2pm via Zoom. During this challenging time we want to offer a space to connect and share with other VHS members. VHS is keen to hear how organisations and their service users are affected, what organisations are trying to do to reconfigure services and activities, as that will help us understand…
March 2020
VHS Members Meet Up: Zoom
VHS Members Meet Up on Zoom Tuesday 31 March at 11am- 12pm VHS would like to invite you to our first virtual members meet up on Tuesday 31st March at 11am via Zoom. During this challenging time we want to offer a space to connect and share with other VHS members. VHS is keen to hear how organisations and their service users are affected, what organisations are trying to do to reconfigure services and activities, as that will help us…
Keeping the Conversation Going: What role does arts & culture play in addressing loneliness and social isolation?
It is with regret that ACHWS and VHS have decided to postpone the seminar on culture, loneliness and social isolation that was due to take place in Perth on 31st March. Postponement is in the interest of everyone’s health and wellbeing. Thank you for understanding. A new date will be announced shortly. ************************** Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland (formerly Arts Health Scotland) are delighted to announce a one-day event exploring the role that arts and culture can play in tackling social…
February 2020
VHS at The Gathering 2020: Demonstrating Third Sector Impact on Inequalities
This interactive workshop will present a model to measure the third sector’s contribution to addressing inequalities, in particular health inequalities. The model (co-produced by national and local voluntary and community health organisations and commissioners) aims to support third sector organisations to explain, measure and prove their contribution to tackling inequalities. The longer term aim is to support local authorities, NHS boards and Public Health Scotland to have a clearer, evidence based understanding of the third sector’s contribution to tackling inequalities,…
VHS at the Gathering 2020: Shaping Primary Care for the next generation in rural Scotland
The Scottish Government’s vision for the future of primary care is for multi-disciplinary teams, made up of a variety of health professionals, working together to support people in their community and to give GPs more time to spend with patients in specific need of their expertise. But what does this mean in a rural context, and what role does the rural third and community sector have to play in helping transform primary care? Rural Scotland has a growing elderly population,…