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- Ian's blog: more green lights for active travel
- Mental Health a key plank of 2018/19 Programme for Government
- A Connected Scotland Update
- Animating A Weighty Issue
- HPON: Planning (Scotland) Bill
- British Red Cross Blog: Maintaining mobility
- Jennifer's Blog: Active travel as a real solution to growing levels of physical inactivity
- Claire's blog: public health reform gains momentum
- Kate's blog: Community Link Workers in Scotland Update
- Claire's blog: what's in a strategy?
- Public health registrar reflects on third sector collaboration
- Third and Independent Sector Engagement with Health and Social Care Integration
- Improving healthcare for trans people: lessons from a collaboration
- Scottish Government issues Clear Pathway guidance to Health Boards
- Spotlight on Healthy n Happy
- #StayMobileStayConnected
- Dom’s blog: what’s a conservation organisation doing in VHS?
- Susan's Blog: You Matter
- Maureen’s blog: Arthritis and Mental Health
- How do we enable a more connected Scotland?
- Maureen’s Blog: See me for who I am
- Spotlight on Pilton Community Health Project
- Norman’s blog: Human Rights in Medicine – Myth and Reality
- Marie-Amélie’s blog: Because we’re only human after all
- Julie’s blog: Calling Time on Alcohol and Ageism
- Margaret's Blog: What can arts and culture do for health inequalities?
- The interplanetary connectedness of public health
- Sport Matters
- SISCC's Blog: Real health delivered through real world research
- Third sector voices on the Public Health Oversight Board
- Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities AGM 26 October 2017
- A Healthier Future – Action and Ambitions on Diet, Activity and Healthy Weight
- Lobbying Act - what is going on?
- Jim's Blog: Smoking and Mental Health- A Neglected Epidemic
- Obesity and its link to cancer – what do we know, and what can we do?
- Community Link Working: What is happening?
- Small Grants Scheme - To Absent Friends
- Owen's Blog: Scotland Third National Dementia Strategy – Are we there yet?
- Lesley’s Blog: Is loneliness among older people putting them at risk of harm and abuse?
- Lorraine's Blog: Looking through a public health lens – what did we see?
- Claire's blog: A National Strategy to Tackle Social Isolation and Loneliness
- Claire's blog: Loneliness is a hard slog so let's tackle it together
- VHS planning response to consultation on New Health and Social Care Standards
- Kiren's blog: The Spirit of Kinder Communities
- Rob's Blog: HPON on Cross Party Groups
- Going the distance for the voluntary health sector
- Katie's blog: Loneliness, a threat to Scotland's health
- Su’s Blog: Community Renaissance – How to unblock the straw
- Dinah’s blog: Learning difficulties and loneliness for children, young people and families
- Margaret’s blog: What would a good society look like?
- Norman's blog: keeping faith in older people with dementia
- Kiren’s Blog: Social Prescribing = Social Connectedness
- Susan's blog: the loneliness of terminal illness
- Hilda’s blog: building a kinder world
- Nicola’s blog: self-management messages – more of a nudge than a shove
- Kiren's Blog: Meeting with the Health and Sport Committee
- Claire's blog: what does Brexit mean for health?
- Community Link Worker survey now open
- Rob's blog: Health Policy Officers Network gets underway
- Catherine's blog - some parting words...
- Catherine's blog - Realistic medicine: I thought the doctor(s) knew best too...
- Claire's Blog - Measuring the Success of the Government’s Health Debate
- Katie’s blog: Making the choice to eradicate health inequalities
- Post Election Agenda for Health Event: Key Messages Report
- Catherine's Blog: Purple Poncho Players steal the show at the Alliance Annual Conference 2016
- Eric's blog: Building an Alliance to Tackle Overweight and Obesity in Scotland
- Catherine's Blog - Prevention: Easier Said than Done
- Angie's Blog: Seeking Catalysts for Change
- Frances' blog: Short lives of mentally ill a national scandal
- Katie's Blog - Make health inequalities your business
- Gordon's Blog- Making connections on health and social care integration
- Katie's Blog: Reflections Health and Social Care Integration Workshop with Audit Scotland
- Catherine's Blog - Food: it's about so much more than nutrition.
- Lucy’s blog: rights and recovery for transformational change
- Lesley's blog: the day the Minister visited Cope Scotland
- Katie's blog: Closing the Gap conference reflections
- Claire's blog: how to actively suppress health inequalities
- Norman's blog: squaring the circle for families in poverty
- Lorna's blog: reflecting on my first year as VHS Chair
- Jo's blog: raising awareness about learning disabilities and visual impairment
- Katie’s blog: what will your pledge be?
- Blog: Living in the Gap Seminar Series, Glasgow
- Featured
- Messages and Learning
- Conference Key Messages: Tomorrow's World Today
- Joint CPG on Health Inequalities and Improving Scotland's Health: The Right to Health
- Best Start Foods: making the most of the Healthy Start reform - Key Messages
- CPG on Health Inequalities: Fuel Poverty
- A Weighty Issue: Understanding and Action on Health and Obesity Graphic
- CPG on Health Inequalities: Health and Social Care Standards 25th January 2018
- CPG on Health Inequalities: Culture and Health 7th December 2017
- Key Messages: A weighty issue: Understanding and Action on Obesity and Health
- Conference Key Messages: VHS Annual Conference 2017- Get Real
- Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities AGM 26 October 2017
- Conference Key Messages: Volunteering the Golden Thread in Health
- Key Messages: Gold Star Exemplars: Third sector approaches to Community Link Working across Scotland
- Key Messages: Stirling Mental Health and Social Support Seminar
- Key Messages: Helensburgh Mental Health and Social Support Workshop
- Key Messages: Glasgow Mental Health and Social Support Seminar
- Key Messages: Loneliness Seminar, The Gathering 2017
- Conference Key Messages: Loneliness, A Threat to Scotland's Health
- Key Messages: Dundee Mental Health and Social Support Seminar
- Conference Key Messages: Understanding the Gap
- Key Messages: Public Health Review Sounding Board
- Key Messages: The Deep End, Health Inequalities CPG
- Key Messages: Health and Social Care Integration Glasgow Workshop with Audit Scotland
- Katie's Blog: Reflections Health and Social Care Integration Workshop with Audit Scotland
- Key Messages: Health and Social Care Integration Edinburgh Workshop with Audit Scotland
- Conference Key Messages: Closing the Gap
- Katie's blog: Closing the Gap conference reflections
- Discussion Note: Audit Scotland examines emerging risks in health and social care integration
- Key Messages: Living in the Gap Dundee Seminar
- Key Messages: Living in the Gap Glasgow Seminar
- Key Messages: Third Sector, Health and Scottish Govenment Learning Exchanges 2015
- Key Messages: Equal Partners April 2015
- Learning Exchange for national and local organisations involved in health
- The Engagement Matrix
- Learning Exchanges 2012-2013
- How can Scotland’s new food body help all Scotland’s people live longer, healthier lives?
- News
- VHS Response to the Draft Culture Strategy for Scotland
- Ian's blog: more green lights for active travel
- HPON: Planning (Scotland) Bill Evidence Briefing
- Mental Health a key plank of 2018/19 Programme for Government
- What's new? Read our September 2018 bulletin
- A Connected Scotland Update
- Animating A Weighty Issue
- HPON: Planning (Scotland) Bill
- British Red Cross Blog: Maintaining mobility
- What's new? Read our August 2018 bulletin
- Jennifer's Blog: Active travel as a real solution to growing levels of physical inactivity
- Claire's blog: public health reform gains momentum
- Kate's blog: Community Link Workers in Scotland Update
- What's new? Read our July 2018 bulletin
- Claire's blog: what's in a strategy?
- Conference Key Messages: Tomorrow's World Today
- Public health registrar reflects on third sector collaboration
- Joint CPG on Health Inequalities and Improving Scotland's Health: The Right to Health
- What's new? Read our June 2018 e-bulletin
- Best Start Foods: making the most of the Healthy Start reform - Key Messages
- Third and Independent Sector Engagement with Health and Social Care Integration
- Improving healthcare for trans people: lessons from a collaboration
- What's new? Read our May 2018 e-bulletin
- CPG on Health Inequalities: Fuel Poverty
- VHS Response to A Connected Scotland
- Scottish Government issues Clear Pathway guidance to Health Boards
- Read our April 2018 e-bulletin
- Health Policy Officers Network: Digital Health and Care Strategy
- Health Policy Officers Network: Brexit, Health and Social Care
- Spotlight on Healthy n Happy
- A Weighty Issue: Understanding and Action on Health and Obesity Graphic
- #StayMobileStayConnected
- Making Time for A Connected Scotland
- CPG on Health Inequalities: Health and Social Care Standards 25th January 2018
- CPG on Health Inequalities: Culture and Health 7th December 2017
- What's new? Read our March 2018 e-bulletin
- Summary Briefing: New GP Contract
- Key Messages: A weighty issue: Understanding and Action on Obesity and Health
- Dom’s blog: what’s a conservation organisation doing in VHS?
- Susan's Blog: You Matter
- Maureen’s blog: Arthritis and Mental Health
- How do we enable a more connected Scotland?
- Maureen’s Blog: See me for who I am
- Spotlight on Pilton Community Health Project
- VHS Response to A Healthier Future – Action and Ambitions on Diet, Activity and Healthy Weight
- Scottish Government draft strategy launched: A Connected Scotland
- Julie’s blog: Calling Time on Alcohol and Ageism
- “What can arts and culture do for health inequalities?” Developing a Culture Strategy for Scotland
- Margaret's Blog: What can arts and culture do for health inequalities?
- Health, human rights and the EU Withdrawal Bill
- Conference Key Messages: VHS Annual Conference 2017- Get Real
- The interplanetary connectedness of public health
- Sport Matters
- SISCC's Blog: Real health delivered through real world research
- Third sector voices on the Public Health Oversight Board
- Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities AGM 26 October 2017
- A Healthier Future – Action and Ambitions on Diet, Activity and Healthy Weight
- Lobbying Act - what is going on?
- Jim's Blog: Smoking and Mental Health- A Neglected Epidemic
- Scottish Civil Society backs call to end the benefit freeze
- Health Policy Officers Network: Next Stages of the Public Health Reform
- Conference Key Messages: Volunteering the Golden Thread in Health
- Membership Survey 2017 Results
- Obesity and its link to cancer – what do we know, and what can we do?
- What's new? Read our September 2017 e-bulletin
- VHS Response to Socio-Economic Duty Consultation
- Community Link Working: What is happening?
- Could you be the new VHS Communications and Marketing Assistant
- What's new? read our August 2017 e-bulletin
- Small Grants Scheme - To Absent Friends
- What's new? Read our July 2017 e-bulletin
- Putting heads together on loneliness
- Owen's Blog: Scotland Third National Dementia Strategy – Are we there yet?
- Key Messages: Gold Star Exemplars: Third sector approaches to Community Link Working across Scotland
- Key Messages: Stirling Mental Health and Social Support Seminar
- Getting round the table on public health
- Lesley’s Blog: Is loneliness among older people putting them at risk of harm and abuse?
- What's new? Read our June 2017 e-bulletin
- Health Policy Officers Network: taking stock “The best bit is that there are no stupid questions”
- VHS Briefing - The Health and Social Care Delivery Plan
- Lorraine's Blog: Looking through a public health lens – what did we see?
- What's new? Read our May 2017 e-bulletin.
- Claire's blog: A National Strategy to Tackle Social Isolation and Loneliness
- Key Messages: Helensburgh Mental Health and Social Support Workshop
- How Can Social Marketing Help Us Develop a Strategic Approach to Loneliness?
- What's new? Read our April 2017 e-bulletin
- VHS response to: Places, people and planning: A consultation on the future of the Scottish planning system
- Key Messages: Glasgow Mental Health and Social Support Seminar
- Claire's blog: Loneliness is a hard slog so let's tackle it together
- VHS Response to Health and Sport Committee Call for Evidence
- Key Messages: Loneliness Seminar, The Gathering 2017
- Summary Briefing: The Lobbying Act for a Third Sector Audience
- Help complete picture of third sector volunteering in health
- VHS response to National Health and Social Care Standards Consultation
- VHS planning response to consultation on New Health and Social Care Standards
- Kiren's blog: The Spirit of Kinder Communities
- Gender and health inequalities
- Rob's Blog: HPON on Cross Party Groups
- Going the distance for the voluntary health sector
- Katie's blog: Loneliness, a threat to Scotland's health
- Su’s Blog: Community Renaissance – How to unblock the straw
- VHS Conference - Loneliness: A threat to Scotland’s Health
- Dinah’s blog: Learning difficulties and loneliness for children, young people and families
- Norman's blog: keeping faith in older people with dementia
- Key Messages: Dundee Mental Health and Social Support Seminar
- Kiren’s Blog: Social Prescribing = Social Connectedness
- Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities formally recognised
- Susan's blog: the loneliness of terminal illness
- Hilda’s blog: building a kinder world
- Summary Briefing of ‘Social Work in Scotland’
- Key Messages from Audit Scotland Roundtable event
- Nicola’s blog: self-management messages – more of a nudge than a shove
- Kiren's Blog: Meeting with the Health and Sport Committee
- Claire's blog: what does Brexit mean for health?
- Community Link Worker survey now open
- Health Policy Officers Network
- Responding to Mental Health in Scotland – A 10 year vision
- Rob's blog: Health Policy Officers Network gets underway
- Catherine's blog - some parting words...
- VHS study - scoping community links workers
- VHS Membership Survey 2016 - Results Report
- Catherine's blog - Realistic medicine: I thought the doctor(s) knew best too...
- Claire's Blog - Measuring the Success of the Government’s Health Debate
- Katie’s blog: Making the choice to eradicate health inequalities
- Clear Pathway exploring NHS and third sector volunteering
- Conference Key Messages: Understanding the Gap
- VHS Briefing Paper for Scottish Government debate 7th June 2016: Taking Scotland Forward - delivering a healthier Scotland
- VHS is recruiting!
- Post Election Agenda for Health Event: Key Messages Report
- Catherine's Blog: Purple Poncho Players steal the show at the Alliance Annual Conference 2016
- National Clinical Strategy - VHS Summary May 2016
- Scottish Parliament CPG on Health Inequalities - Summary Report of Meetings Held September 2015-February 2016
- Eric's blog: Building an Alliance to Tackle Overweight and Obesity in Scotland
- Catherine's Blog - Prevention: Easier Said than Done
- Creating a Healthier Scotland Conversation - Summary Report Published
- Angie's Blog: Seeking Catalysts for Change
- Frances' blog: Short lives of mentally ill a national scandal
- Carers engage with Audit Scotland on integration
- Clear Pathway
- Scottish Government seeks input to next Mental Health Strategy
- Key Messages: Public Health Review Sounding Board
- Key Messages: The Deep End, Health Inequalities CPG
- Katie's Blog - Make health inequalities your business
- Scottish Government Publishes 2015 Review of Public Health
- Key Messages: Health and Social Care Integration Glasgow Workshop with Audit Scotland
- Gordon's Blog- Making connections on health and social care integration
- UK Health Literacy Group coming to Glasgow for their 4th Annual Conference
- Katie's Blog: Reflections Health and Social Care Integration Workshop with Audit Scotland
- Catherine's Blog - Food: it's about so much more than nutrition.
- Key Messages: Health and Social Care Integration Edinburgh Workshop with Audit Scotland
- Preventing alcohol related harm in older people
- The Open University Resources and Events
- VHS welcomes Audit Scotland report on health and social care integration
- Lucy’s blog: rights and recovery for transformational change
- Charities appeal to Chancellor of Exchequer to spare Big Lottery funding
- Lesley's blog: the day the Minister visited Cope Scotland
- Conference Key Messages: Closing the Gap
- Katie's blog: Closing the Gap conference reflections
- Claire's blog: how to actively suppress health inequalities
- Norman's blog: squaring the circle for families in poverty
- Lorna's blog: reflecting on my first year as VHS Chair
- Discussion Note: Audit Scotland examines emerging risks in health and social care integration
- Jo's blog: raising awareness about learning disabilities and visual impairment
- Katie’s blog: what will your pledge be?
- Key Messages: Living in the Gap Dundee Seminar
- Key Messages: Living in the Gap Glasgow Seminar
- Could you be the new VHS Policy Engagement Officer?
- Lampard report and NHS volunteering: implications for the third sector
- VHS welcomes NHS commitment to action on health inequalities
- VHS wins prestigious NHSScotland award
- Mental health and smoking: a voluntary sector perspective
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Focus Group
- Equal Partners Article in Children in Scotland Magazine
- 'Living in the Gap' will be at NHSScotland Event
- VHS Strategy 2015 - 2018
- Living in the Gap Parliamentary Event
- VHS launches Living in the Gap
- Public Health Review: VHS response to Review Engagement Paper
- Public Health Review
- Review of Public Health in Scotland
- Digitally switched on to health
- Latest thinking on actions to reduce health inequalities
- Voluntary health organisations get on the web
- Leadership Development Opportunity
- HEALTH, WELLBEING AND YOUR BRAIN
- NHS Education for Scotland Vox Pop
- Developing devolution in Scotland
- Could you work for VHS?
- Becoming a good food nation?
- Unequal Lives – Later Life
- A Spoonful of Money: Incentivising Healthcare
- VHS responds to the National Care Standards Review consultation
- Unequal Lives - Vulnerable Adults
- VHS submits evidence to Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill
- Public Libraries: Potential partners for delivering on health
- Changeworks
- The Engagement Matrix; the story so far
- VHS responds to draft regulations on health and social care integration
- Kingsway Court Health and Wellbeing Centre
- A SPOONFUL OF MONEY: INCENTIVISING HEALTHCARE
- A Stronger Voice: health and social care
- Unequal Lives - Transitions
- Changing Lives through Comedy
- Mindroom
- Empowering Communities - Call for Evidence
- Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities
- Building third sector evidence on health inequalities
- Eric Liddell Centre
- Public Bodies Act - Draft Regulations - for consultation
- Health Inequalities Policy Review
- Unequal Lives - children and the early years
- Join our Health Inequalities Project!
- Tullibody Healthy Living
- See Hear: new strategic framework for meeting the needs of people with sensory impairment in Scotland
- Digital Inclusion for Health: First new website launched
- Ministerial Task Force publishes second review of Equally well
- Innovation in dementia support
- Unequal lives, unjust deaths
- Scottish Parliament passes Public Bodies Act
- Connecting people: A fairer, healthier Scotland
- VHS launches new health inequalities postcards
- Fast Forward Spotlight
- Community Empowerment
- Rowan Alba Spotlight
- VHS launches new project - offering free Websites
- Discussing Community Empowerment
- Drawing It All Together: VHS Annual Symposium
- Scottish Families affected by Alcohol and Drugs
- Scottish Families affected by Alcohol and Drugs
- Public Bodies Bill - Stage 1 Debate
- Health Inequalities
- Health & Social Care Integration
- Third Sector Contributions to Narrowing Health Inequalities
- Living Streets
- Drawing It All Together - Symposium & AGM
- Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill Update
- Neighbourhood Networks
- Scottish Draft Budget 2014-15 announced
- Children in Scotland working to reduce health inequalities
- VHS Sounding Board: Health Inequalities
- Can good quality services emerge from a jargon-filled Bill?
- Public Bodies Bill Call for Evidence
- Third and Public Sector - Equal Partners?
- Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill - what role for the third sector?
- VHS Sounding Board: Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill - call for evidence
- Living with Eczema
- Living with Eczema
- Health and social care in transition - Public Bodies (Joint Working) Bill
- Voluntary Health Scotland is recruiting
- Food for thought
- Health and Social Care in Transition: VHS Member Event
- Integration of Adult Health and Social Care
- Adult Services and Child Concerns
- A new Food Body for Scotland
- Prevention of Suicide & Self Harm
- Innovation to Transformation: towards world-class health, housing and social care
- Joint Health and Third Sector Working
- Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill
- A new Food Body for Scotland
- Prevention of Suicide and Self harm
- Heterogeneity within the ethnic minority populations – implications for healthcare planning
- New Food Body for Scotland Consultation 2013
- Health Inequalities Task Force listens to community & third sector evidence
- Safe Space - creative fundraising supported by patron Iain Banks
- It's good to talk
- Leading for Children and Young People’s Health - an Equal Partners event
- Improving Engagement between Health and the Third Sector
- Releasing Time to Care and Integration
- Third sector engagement with health & social care - where next?
- BackCare Lothian Branch
- Holyrood Magazine highlights VHS
- Scottish Co-production Network
- Health Inequalities and Physical Activity a Priority for Public Services
- Ministerial Taskforce on Health Inequalities reconvenes
- Improving Engagement between Health and the Third Sector
- One Goal. Many Voices. Unlimited Potential.
- Learning Exchanges Lessons
- Better Breaks for disabled children fund opens
- Self Management Impact Fund for people with long term conditions
- Community Grants for small organisations and groups
- Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund
- Walkable Communites Project
- Responsible Parking Alliance
- Spotlight on Eczema Outreach Scotland
- Consultation Event: Integration of Adult Health and Social Care in Scotland
- Consultation Event: Integration of Adult Health and Social Care in Scotland
- SAMH launches new self-harm report
- Alzheimer Scotland wins Charity of the Year award
- New support for third sector's role in Reshaping Care for Older People Change Fund
- New study helps parents to protect children from cigarette smoke in the home
- Quality of care at risk from low hourly rates
- Charity calls for action on fuel poverty report
- Survey of Community Planning Partnership structures and arrangements 2012
- What do you know about tobacco and how it affects your community?
- Changing Support, Changing Lives - new reference group
- Learning Evaluation and Planning approach to evaluation
- Stroke survivors' guide launched
- Proposed Alcohol (Public Health and Criminal Justice) (Scotland) Bill
- Policy and Resources
- What we do