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SUMMARY:Human Rights Bill- Kitchen Table Discussion
DESCRIPTION:VHS are hosting a Kitchen Table discussion\, in person\, at our office in Edinburgh\, on the morning of Tuesday 5th September\, to discuss the Scottish Government Human Rights Bill Consultation. We have invited selected members\, challengers and critical friends to join us at the Kitchen Table. Please contact Lauren Blair if you would like to express and interest in attending. \nThe Scottish Government has launched the consultation gathering views to help inform the  Human Rights Bill. The Bill will incorporate a range of economic\, social and cultural rights into Scots law for the first time. One of the rights listed is ‘The right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health”\, this will be the primary focus of our consultation response. However\, we are also interested in hearing our members’ views on incorporating the convention on the elimination of racial discrimination\, the elimination of discrimination against women and the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities\, not to mention plans to recognise the right to a healthy environment. So many of our rights are intertwined and impact our health and wellbeing\, we want to hear what they mean to our members and their work. \nWe are holding a Kitchen Table discussion to help us cast a critical eye over our consultation response focusing on health\, and to benefit from the perspectives\, expertise and experience of people with professional or personal knowledge of the issues. The main body of the meeting will be concentrating on the consultation questions. We especially want to hear from any members who have imbedded a human rights based approach to their work supporting people’s health and wellbeing. \nListening to\, learning from and collaborating with our stakeholders is crucial to enable VHS to put forward important views on the right to health and the role of human rights in tackling health inequalities as part of our consultation response. \nPlease contact Lauren Blair with any further questions. \n  \n 
URL:https://vhscotland.org.uk/event/human-rights-bill-kitchen-table-discussion/
LOCATION:VHS Office\, 18 York Place\, Edinburgh\, EH1 3EP
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SUMMARY:Scottish Community Link Worker Network – September Peer Support Event 2023
DESCRIPTION:**These events are aimed specifically at Community Link Workers who are working directly within a Primary Care setting in Scotland** \nTo support Community Link Workers’ (CLWs) wellbeing and to enable CLWs to share learning and good practice\, the Scottish Community Link Worker Network is hosting this event to bring together CLWs to talk about the tools and resources currently available to support the role. \nTo encourage discussion and sharing of good practice\, we will go into smaller breakout groups to allow CLWs time to network with their peers and find out more about each other’s work. \nBook your place here.\nPlease contact Lauren Blair with any questions. \nIf you can’t attend but wish to be updated on future progress of the Network\, please get in touch\, please contact Roisin Hurst.
URL:https://vhscotland.org.uk/event/scottish-community-link-worker-network-september-peer-support-event-2023/
LOCATION:online Via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Understanding barriers to accessing primary care- a third sector response
DESCRIPTION:We invite third sector organisations to join us at our next online Members Meet Up\, where we want to hear your views on the barriers people face when accessing primary care\, especially people affected by socio-economic inequalities. In your experience\, what are the barriers to primary care\, and how are they widening the health inequalities gap? We are holding this Members Meet Up in order to contribute a strong voluntary health perspective to the work of the Primary Care Health Inequalities Development Group. \nBook a place here.\nMost of the time\, people use their own personal and community assets to manage their health and wellbeing and achieve the outcomes that matter to them. But primary care is their first point of contact with the NHS. This includes contact with community based services provided by general practitioners (GPs)\, community nurses\, dentists\, dental nurses\, optometrists\, dispensing opticians\, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. It can also be with allied health professionals such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists\, midwives and pharmacists. \nTo what extent are barriers to primary care contributing to excess deaths and premature disability related to socio-economic inequalities? This is the question posed in the Report of the Primary Care Short Life Working Group in 2022. The report called for further investigation into the barriers some groups experience in accessing primary care\, which it said may manifest themselves through waiting times; delayed presentations with serious conditions; “missingness” from health care; perverse incentives and behaviours created by targets; and health-damaging behaviours people adopt to self-manage or self-medicate when unable to access care and support. To this list VHS would add\, stigma and discrimination. \nVHS was part of the Primary Care Short Life Working Group\, and sits on the Development Group that is taking forward its recommendations. \nWe need your views\, so please join us for this important discussion. \nBook a place here.\nPlease contact Lauren Blair if you have any questions.
URL:https://vhscotland.org.uk/event/understanding-barriers-to-accessing-primary-care-a-third-sector-response/
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