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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Voluntary Health Scotland launched a programme of events to address health inequalities across the life course. Health inequalities are differences in health status and outcomes between different groups of people. People who are living with social, economic, physical, or political disadvantages … [Read more...] about Unequal lives, unjust deaths

On 19 and 20 February, Voluntary Health Scotland attended, exhibited and held an event at the 10th annual Gathering.  Across the two days, we met many passionate people from across the voluntary and public sectors, and were delighted with people’s commitment to tackle health inequalities. The full … [Read more...] about Connecting people: A fairer, healthier Scotland

VHS launched a new series of postcards at The Gathering on 19 February 2014. The postcards raise awareness of the work in the voluntary sector to tackle health inequalities, and complemented the VHS session at the event with partners NHS Health Scotland and the Community Health Exchange (CHEX); A … [Read more...] about VHS launches new health inequalities postcards