Specialist Alcohol Service Helps to Break Down Barriers Alcohol causes significant health and socials harm to the Scottish population. People from the most deprived areas in Scotland experience greater inequalities in harms caused by alcohol – they are four times more likely to die from … [Read more...] about Andrea’s Blog: Supporting people from disadvantaged backgrounds with their alcohol problems
Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Demonstrating impact on health inequalities
On 29 March the Scottish Community Link Worker Network and Evaluation Support Scotland ran a short follow up session for those who had attended the training in December 2021 Demonstrating impact on health inequalities. The training was based on the resource Recognising our rich tapestry: measuring … [Read more...] about Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Demonstrating impact on health inequalities
Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care spotlights link working
Alison Leitch, Community Link Worker Network Area Lead for North Edinburgh, was recently part of a panel presenting evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care. The Committee's MSPs spent a large part of their … [Read more...] about Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care spotlights link working
A Chance to Change Primary Care and Tackle Health Inequalities
Published on 14th March 2022, a new Scottish Government report sets out 23 recommendations for actions to be taken to help primary care play a stronger role in reducing health inequalities in Scotland: Report of the Primary Care Health Inequalities Short Life Working Group. VHS is a member of the … [Read more...] about A Chance to Change Primary Care and Tackle Health Inequalities
Jim’s Blog – Smoking and Mental Health: A Forgotten Epidemic
Introduction ASH Scotland - Action on Smoking and Health (Scotland) - is the independent Scottish charity taking action to reduce the harm caused by tobacco. The IMPACT Project is part of our work to support the Scottish Government’s target of achieving a national smoking prevalence rate of 5% or … [Read more...] about Jim’s Blog – Smoking and Mental Health: A Forgotten Epidemic
Scottish Community Link Worker Network is now on Twitter!
The Scottish Community Link Worker Network has now got its own Twitter account! You can find us and follow us @ScotCLWnetwork We hope that this will be another useful way to share information, news, resources and ideas with the Network's Community Link Workers. … [Read more...] about Scottish Community Link Worker Network is now on Twitter!
Emma’s Blog – Guide Dogs Scotland: helping adults and children with a vision impairment
Emma Brown, Services Marketing Manager Scotland, from the charity Guide Dogs Scotland, outlines below how the organisation can help people with sight loss. She also discusses the resources available to learn the useful skill of sighted guiding as well as the benefits of volunteering with the … [Read more...] about Emma’s Blog – Guide Dogs Scotland: helping adults and children with a vision impairment
Demonstrating impact on health inequalities for Community Link Workers- Follow up
In December VHS hosted a workshop in partnership with Evaluation Support Scotland: Demonstrating impact on health inequalities for Community Link Workers. We hope attendees found it useful and have started to think how you could use some of the approaches/tools in your role. We plan to run a … [Read more...] about Demonstrating impact on health inequalities for Community Link Workers- Follow up
Nicola’s Blog: Demonstrating CLWs’ Impact on Tackling Health Inequalities
What we did Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) supports the newly established Scottish Community Link Worker Network for Community Link Workers in primary care settings. Feedback from Community Link Workers (CLWs) over the last few months has shown that there is an appetite for learning and sharing … [Read more...] about Nicola’s Blog: Demonstrating CLWs’ Impact on Tackling Health Inequalities
Scottish Community Link Worker Network – March Peer Support Event
**These events are aimed specifically at Community Link Workers who are working directly within a Primary Care setting in Scotland**. To support CLWs’ wellbeing and to enable CLWs to share learning and good practice, the Scottish Community Link Worker Network will be running two peer support … [Read more...] about Scottish Community Link Worker Network – March Peer Support Event
