Why should a VHS member become a partner in Scotland’s Coalition for Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives? It would be easy to ignore or dismiss the invitation from the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland to join this emerging coalition. After all, your …

Discover Digital is a project to raise awareness of the digital tools in health and social care. As part of this we have given funding to seven different organisations. The organisations are engaging with seldom heard groups on how they could be better …

Pain Association Scotland is a national charity who have been in operation for just over 33 years, we develop and deliver self-management training for those burdened with any form of chronic pain throughout Scotland.  Our overall aim is to provide peop …

Ceilidh@home … It is worth saying from the onset that this activity is not about an accordion dance band in the living room! Unless of course that is what the person wants, and I am sure it can be arranged, even if it is just digitally in these strange …

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women the UK. In Scotland around 4,700 women are diagnosed each year.  The risk of developing breast cancer increases with age, most cases (80%) occur in women over 50. Current estimates suggest that at least …

With our two hospices offering emergency care in order to safeguard families during the first national lockdown in March 2020, CHAS had to dramatically transform the way in which we provide our increasingly important services. As well as significantly …

The National Breastfeeding Helpline has always strived to provide an accessible service that is equal for all who need it.  We are open from 9.30am-9.30pm 365 days a year on 0300 100 0212. We provide non-judgemental, evidence based, empathic breastfeed …

Inclusion oral health is of vital importance to reduce the burden of oral disease in Scotland. Link Net aim to reduce this inequality along with inequalities in education, employment, and civic engagement for ethnic minorities in Lothian. A big part of …

Finding yourself in a medical crisis, such as discovering you have a brain tumour, is usually a deeply upsetting and often terrifying challenge. Even if you have had a sense that “something” is wrong with your health, there is no preparation for being …

Room for Art is a social prescribing project run by Art in Healthcare. Providing visual arts on a weekly basis to adults in at least seven areas of Edinburgh, we aim to improve people’s health and wellbeing.  Our participants are referred by GPs, Link …