The Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities met on 25th January 2018 to consider the Health and Social Care Standards 2017   and health inequalities. Dr Fiona Wardell, Team Lead for the Standards, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and Henry Mathias, Str …

The Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities met on 7th December 2017 to discuss culture, arts and health. Read the Minutes During 2017 and 2018 the Scottish Government is working on Developing A Culture Strategy for Scotland.  As Secretariat to the CP …

VHS hosted a collaborative learning event at The Gathering in Glasgow, supported by the NHS Health Scotland Inequalities Learning Collaborative. Its aim was to foster understanding and action on obesity and health inequalities. It was chaired by Gregor …

Our Annual Conference, ‘Get Real: Real People, Real Communities, Real Health’, took place on the 16th November 2017 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow. The aim of our annual conference was to ‘Get Real’ about health in Scotland and explore the big th …

The Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities  met on 26th October 2017 for its first AGM this Parliamentary session. VHS have produced a summary of the meetings from 2016-2017- CPG Health Inequalities Summary Annual Review 2016-17 At the AGM, Members r …

On 14th of September VHS held a conference, ‘Volunteering the Golden Thread in Health’, which brought together over 120 delegates to discuss volunteering by third sector organisations in an NHS setting. The conference is a milestone in VHS’s Clear Path …

A report setting out the extensive and varied nature of third sector approaches to community link working across Scotland was launched by VHS on 27th June 2017 at a well attended seminar in Edinburgh. Published as Gold Star Exemplars: Third Sector Appr …

Loneliness and social isolation, funding challenges and partnership opportunities were to the fore of discussion at our workshop on mental health and social support in Stirling. Between November 2016 and June 2017 VHS, Support in Mind Scotland and the …

Loneliness and social isolation, funding challenges and partnership opportunities were to the fore of discussion at our workshop on mental health and social support in Helensburgh. VHS, Support in Mind Scotland and the Open University are running a col …

VHS, the Open University and Support in Mind Scotland have partnered together to present a programme of events across the country on mental health and social support, running between November 2016 and June 2017. The first seminar was held in Dundee on …