The Gathering – Wednesday 15th June 2022 Chaired by Claire Stevens, CEO, Voluntary Health Scotland. Members of the panel: Hilda Campbell, CEO, COPE Scotland Bushra Riaz, Policy Officer, Kidney Research UK Alastair Hudson, CEO, HIV Scotland John Watson, …

On the 31st May 2022, Evaluation Support Scotland and VHS held a workshop for Community Link Workers. What we did The aim of this half-day online workshop run by Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) and Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) workshop was to supp …

As a result of feedback from Scottish Community Link Worker Network members, VHS recently commissioned ABCD Consultants to undertake a review of the training and development needs of Community Link Workers in Scotland. The consultants ran a number of f …

The Scottish Community Link Worker Network hosted two community link worker peer support events in February and March to allow CLWs from across Scotland to come together, meet their peers and share experiences, challenges and good practice.  The events …

The Scottish Parliament’s Participation & Communities Team (PACT) hosted an online Parliamentary Awareness Event for the Health Policy Officers Network (HPON) on Thursday 31 March at 11:00-12:00.  This provided policy officers with the opportunity …

VHS and the Open University met with members and other stakeholders for an online event on the 1st March 2022, to revisit lessons learned from our  Ageing Well series of events. During 2020 and 2021, VHS had run a series of events on ageing well with t …

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 res …

Health Policy Officer Network meeting on NPF4 18 January 2022 Members of the network met to discuss the Scottish Government’s consultation on the draft National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) and upcoming parliamentary engagement events. We heard from col …

VHS hosted an engagement event with the Scottish Government on the 9th of February to discuss the recently published digital health and care strategy   which commits to the development of Scotland’s first ever dedicated Data Strategy. It’s important th …

The Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities met on Tuesday 1 February at 12.30 online via Zoom with the meeting chaired by Brian Whittle MSP. Meeting topic: Active approaches to health inequalities affecting children and young people  We were delighte …