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- Diana's Blog: MS-UK awareness training for social prescribers
- Annette's Blog: Fit for Purpose
- Could you be our next Chief Executive?
- Everything you need for the VHS AGM on 30th November 2023
- Rob's blog: Reflecting on My Journey as a Voluntary Health Scotland Trustee
- VHS Annual Conference 2023: The Health Creators Summit
- VHS Annual Conference 2023 Poster Finalists!
- Dr Sarah's Blog: “There’s always hope”
- Cara's Blog: A lifeline when no one else wants to give you an answer
- Ahmed and Jo’s Blog: Eat Well for Oral Health
- VHS is recruiting a Policy Engagement Lead
- Inviting nominations to the VHS Board
- Dr Oana’s Blog: Social Prescribing for Improving Communities Eating practices (SPICE)
- Rob's Blog - Tackling loneliness and isolation during a cost-of-living crisis
- Audrey's Blog- Bringing a health inequalities lens to evaluation and learning
- Emma's Blog: Our inclusivity journey
- Jeni's Blog: Taking Art Home
- Jennifer's Blog: Why delivering child healthy weight matters
- VHS Chief Executive Claire Stevens to retire in Spring 2024
- Investing in Community Link Workers - Now or Never
- Sandra's Blog: Highland Social Prescribing Event
- Brian's Blog: using the power of sport to help older people be more active
- Lorraine's Blog: Improving mental health and wellbeing with Linburn Therapy Hub
- Doug's Blog: why past military service matters for health and wellbeing in later life
- Could you be our new Communications and Membership Officer?
- Lucy's Blog: Exploring Health Inequalities in Scotland through a Human Rights Lens
- Murdoch's Blog: Connecting Human Kindness to Human Crisis
- Laura’s blog: How community link workers can help people access disability benefits
- Roisin's Blog: Giving a Voice to Scotland's Community Link Workers
- Helen's Blog: Walking and wheeling can be the best medicine
- Michael's Blog: The Art of Combatting Loneliness
- Danny’s blog: Edinburgh Community Link Workers and RSPB Edinburgh Partnership
- Clare’s Blog: stigma, financial support and the cost-of-living crisis
- Laura's Blog: A Community Link Worker Case Study
- Christophe Blog: Join Global Intergenerational Week and Transform Your Community
- Chris's Blog: Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland
- Sonia's Blog: Pain Association Scotland
- Has community planning made a difference?
- Kevan's Blog: Memories Scotland
- Briefing on Health Inequalities in Scottish Prisons
- A Community Link Worker Case Study: Justine's Blog
- Opportunity to contribute to research into dance and dementia
- Valerie's Blog: Wellbeing approach in the community
- Leanne's blog: see me, listen, be honest, help me understand
- Sarah's Blog: Support for Families Impacted by Imprisonment
- Alison's Blog: Link Life Fife One Year On
- Lynsey and Kirsty's Blog: The Power of Walking
- Brigitte's Blog: NHS 24 is Multilingual
- Wullie's blog: how a Glasgow community link worker is using golf to support people's wellbeing
- Ann-Marie's Blog: Fair enough?
- Kym's Blog: Industry’s Role in Health Inequalities
- Mark's Blog: partnering to support health and wellbeing
- Jennifer's Blog: The growing cost of a healthy diet
- Marion's Blog: Libraries - A Collective Force for Health & Wellbeing
- Kevin's Blog: Supporting Financial Wellbeing
- VHS Annual Conference 2022 Poster Finalists!
- Kevin's Blog: A Day At The Hub, In The Community and A Story Of Proactive Prevention
- Margaret Ann's Blog: Fair Health- Community Links at Work
- Maisie's Blog: Protecting human rights in an evolving digital landscape
- Martyna's Blog: Healthy sleep – who gets it?
- See Me's Blog: With Fairness in Mind
- Bushra's Blog: Diversity in organ donation within Scotland
- Toni's Blog: Hidden Sentences – the impact of imprisonment on the health and wellbeing of families
- Hilda's Blog: Challenges on the sea of life and what can sustain us
- Lisa's Blog: Engaging communities towards being smoke-free: reducing poverty and health inequalities
- Avril's Blog: Learn about ME
- Bella's Blog: Intergenerational relationships and health
- Tanith's Blog: The National Care Service Needs a Blueprint, a Schedule and a Budget
- VHS insights into Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland
- Strengthening Audit Scotland and third sector engagement
- Scottish Parliament Information Centre Blog: The National Care Service will be here soon…or will it?
- Susan’s blog: PASDA – supporting families of autistic adults in Edinburgh and the Lothians
- Iona’s blog: Referring back – accessing support in crisis
- Leanne's Blog: Supporting people with long-term health conditions
- Avril’s Blog: Making the links to support people with M.E.
- VHS exhibits poster at NHS Scotland 2022 event
- Blog: Influencing the health inequalities inquiry
- Steven's Blog: Evaluating impact on Health Inequalities for Community Link Workers
- Inquiry into Health Inequalities hears oral evidence from VHS
- Jen's Blog: Eat Well Age Well: Preventing Malnutrition in Older Adults
- Fiona's Blog: the benefits of therapeutic gardening to people's wellbeing
- Anna’s Blog: Tackling Health Inequalities through the Huruma Project
- VHS launches its 2022-25 strategy
- Opportunity to build your own information support app
- New funding to boost the Scottish Community Link Worker Network
- Andrea's Blog: Supporting people from disadvantaged backgrounds with their alcohol problems
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Demonstrating impact on health inequalities
- Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care spotlights link working
- A Chance to Change Primary Care and Tackle Health Inequalities
- Jim's Blog - Smoking and Mental Health: A Forgotten Epidemic
- Action urged on underpayment of children's social care workers
- Emma’s Blog - Guide Dogs Scotland: helping adults and children with a vision impairment
- Bella's Blog: Building an Intergenerational Nation
- Bushra's Blog: Tackling organ and tissue donation inequalities in South Asian communities
- NPF4, what's health got to do with it?
- Consultation Response: Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill
- Nicola's Blog: Demonstrating CLWs' Impact on Tackling Health Inequalities
- Micro-grants to communities boost Covid-19 vaccines and testing
- Scottish Government Budget 2022-23
- Kiren's Blog: Loneliness & social isolation in the time of COVID-19
- Health at the Heart of Communities: what's love got to do with it?
- A National Care Service for Scotland: Consultation Response
- Celebrate the covid heroes – but what about the other volunteers?
- Wendy’s blog: See Us make a difference together
- Kimberley's blog: Looking beyond COVID
- Leon's Blog: Community-led wellbeing
- Ewan's Blog: How to have your voice heard at Scottish Parliament
- Rebecca's Blog: The Treasures We Seek
- Laura's Blog: Inaccessible health information during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Grant's Blog: Years of healthy life lost in Scotland’s communities
- Bella's Blog: Intergenerational approaches make a real difference
- Jonathan's Blog: Scotland’s Coalition for Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives
- Maisie's Blog: Discover Digital: the digital landscape and the seldom heard
- Sonia's Blog: Chronic pain- Accessing Self-Management during the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Marion's Blog: Ceilidh @ home
- Amy's Blog: Experiences from the ActWELL trial
- Sue's Blog: Establishing The World’s First Virtual Children’s Hospice
- Felicity's Blog: Reaching & serving new parents during the pandemic
- Kirsty's blog: Oral Health Education and Ethnic Minorities
- Neil's Blog: The Brain Tumour Charity’s Step-By-Step Interactive Guide
- Iona's Blog: Art and Minds – Taking Room for Art a step further...
- Helen's Blog: Keeping hearts pumping and spirits up during COVID
- Chris's Blog: SHAAP’s advice for heavy drinkers who are thinking about cutting back or stopping drinking alcohol
- Luke's Blog: Co-operating for the Health of the Nation
- Charities Call for Action on Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
- Marie's Blog: Building a Connected Recovery
- Luke's Blog: my call for other young adults to get vaccinated
- Scoping a National Network for Community Link Workers
- Influencing the equitable delivery of the Covid vaccine
- How British Red Cross have been supporting people in Scotland through the Coronavirus crisis
- Kiren's Blog: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
- On camera: creating health through arts and culture
- COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment for Marginalised Groups in Scotland
- Join the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care
- VHS launch report ‘Vaccine Inclusion: reducing inequalities one vaccine at a time’
- Understanding National Services Scotland and its partnership work
- Waverley Care responds to VHS survey on Covid-19 vaccine inequalities
- Donald's Blog: “I need to be found”: mental health and older age
- Helen's Blog: To survive and then thrive we need the right balance of critical thinking, practical action, and hope
- Survey exploring enablers and barriers to uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine
- Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, transparency and inclusion
- Engage with the Inequalities in Health Alliance
- Lucie's Blog: Know what’s working to prevent homelessness? Crisis want to hear from you
- VHS response to Renewing Scotland's full potential in a digital world
- Morna's Blog: why we’re getting #LouderForMS
- Chris's blog: Caring, creativity and connectedness in Tayside during Covid-19
- Robbie’s Blog: Atlas Pandemica - Maps to a Kinder World
- Allyson's blog: Reflections on #WeArePublicHealth
- Claire's Blog: Building Forward Better for the Health and Care Workforce
- Pamela's Blog: Health on the Shelf
- Mairi's Blog: Now, more than ever, we’re here to listen
- Tanith's Blog:“We’ve been there!” Why under 65s with Parkinson’s developed a flexible online event for other younger people with Parkinson’s this November
- Iona's Blog: Room for Art- Keeping participants creative and well in their homes during Covid 19
- Daren's Blog: West Dunbartonshire Cares
- Kayleigh's Blog: Virtual Peer Support for Parents in Ayrshire
- Anna's Blog: guided by women’s feedback and lived experience
- Cara's Blog: Breast Buddies Virtual Antenatal Education
- Richard's Blog: Past, Present and Future
- Felicity's Blog: National Breastfeeding Helpline – our response to the Covid-19 pandemic
- #WeArePublicHealth Conference Exhibitors
- Marion's Blog: Safeguarding for health & wellbeing
- Nathan's Blog: Fast-Tracking Scotland to end the HIV epidemic
- Shereen's Blog: Responding to the crisis
- Tackling physical inactivity is more important than ever say leading health charities
- National Clinical Director shares Clear Pathway evaluation report with NHS Boards
- Taking a human rights approach to recovery from COVID-19
- Screening Inequalities Fund 2020/21 opens
- Programme for Government promises protection and renewal
- Laura's Blog: Becoming Co-Convenor of the Health Policy Officers Network
- Alan's Blog: Impossible to Ignore
- Inclusion Scotland Social Care Support Survey
- Public consultation on NHS Near Me
- Nominate someone special for a Scottish Children’s Health Award
- Janis's Blog: Covid-19 the Communication Virus
- Claudia's Blog: People Know How releases study on combating digital exclusion
- Richard’s blog: BHF is still supporting the nation’s hearts at home
- Celebrating Scotland's volunteers in health during #VolunteersWeekScot
- Hugh's blog: The Future of Health and Wellbeing in Scotland
- Holly's Blog - Highland Hello: making a small gesture of connection
- Health Charities: The Mortar Between the Bricks
- COVID-19: A pandemic in the age of inequality
- May's Blog: Scottish Mediation and COVID-19
- Lesley's Blog: Support for Survivors of Rape and Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Jimmy's Blog: Providing vital support for people living with blood borne viruses during COVID-19 lockdown
- Craig's Blog: Are we at risk of mothballing our support needs?
- John's Blog: Social Distancing – An opportunity to find new ways to connect
- Shereen's Blog: #Remoteworking to stay connected
- Ian's Blog: RNIB Scotland, staying touch with people with sight loss
- COVID-19 Funding for the Voluntary Health Sector
- Cancer information and support resources during COVID-19
- VHS Briefing: Impact of COVID-19 on Voluntary Health Organisations
- Rob's blog: Cancer Support Scotland - Here For Your Wellbeing
- Coronavirus and support for people with HIV, hepatitis C or sexual health
- COVID-19: Message for our Members and Stakeholders
- Claire's blog: Culture Strategy will support good health and wellbeing
- Allyson's blog: A Public Mental Health Workshop
- Volunteering in Health: help VHS evaluate the Clear Pathway Guidance
- Emma's blog: Public Health and the Empowerment of Communities
- Linda's Blog: The IMPACT of Smoking on Mental Health
- Our Festive Break Christmas 2019
- Leonie's Blog: Culture, Health and Social Change
- VHS poster at the Faculty of Public Health Conference 2019
- Heather's Blog: Enabling access to screening
- Ian's blog: Scots take steps to better health
- Jan-Bert's blog: Creating a Shared Space for Culture and Health
- Lessons from WHO: Healthy Prosperous Lives for All
- NHS Health Scotland Blog: Child poverty – it’s just not on
- CPG Health Inequalities: The Future of Primary Care
- Lindsay's Blog: Draft Social Security Standards consultation – your chance to contribute!
- Voluntary Health Scotland Response to the Health and Sport Committee Stage 2 Inquiry into Primary Care
- Kate's Blog: Rights of way: What affects older adults walking to stay healthy and happy?
- Jo's Blog: Health Defence Scotland for Healthier Lives
- Kate's blog: Scotland's progress in rolling out community link working
- Anne's Blog: Children and Young People’s Health Rights eLearning Resource
- Caroline's Blog: The Truacanta Project- helping each other with death, dying, loss and care
- John's Blog: Rights, Respect and Recovery
- Laura's Blog: Communication Failure for Blind and Partially Sighted People
- Margaret Ann's Blog: Envisaging Change for Young Adults with Poor Mental Health
- Ronnie's Blog: OPAL and Ceartas Crossfit Project 2018
- Sheila's Blog: Angus Creative Minds- One Size Doesn’t Fit All
- Derek's Blog: What do you mean, I have the right to health?
- Nicola's Blog: How to Make Scotland a Leader in Falls Prevention
- Arts + Health Scotland: Keeping the Conversation Going
- Police Scotland Equity & Diversity Unit Blog: Reporting Hate Crime
- Irene's blog: Get Ready to Challenge Poverty
- Kiren’s Blog: From Ljubljana and back – a journey to the WHO conference
- Paths for All Blog: Public Health Scotland - an opportunity to shape public health in Scotland for a generation
- Hilda's Blog: Jigsaw Project
- How Covid19 has Affected Travel and Tourism around the World
- Lisa’s Blog: Volunteering at The Victoria Hospice
- Susan's Blog: Tackling the Inverse Volunteering Law
- Helen's Blog: Time to Celebrate – Volunteering for All
- Scottish Government consults on public health reform
- Alison's Blog: Partnership and Collaboration
- Clare's blog: Working Together to Address Inequality
- Galvanising arts and health across Scotland
- Key Messages: Valuing and Sustaining Volunteering in Health Conference
- Third sector partners in force at NHS Scotland event 30-31 May 2019
- WHO to publish case study on CPG on Health Inequalities
- Paul's blog: Universal and equal rights to rehabilitation
- VHS adopts new charitable purposes and constitution
- CPG Health Inequalities: Loneliness and social isolation
- Claire's blog: the future of public health, bicycle or frog?
- Kiren's Blog: Understanding Loneliness and Social Isolation in Scotland
- Sarah's briefing: Volunteering and A Connected Scotland
- VHS calls on its Members to vote
- Launch: A Connected Scotland
- Minister for Public Health, Sport & Wellbeing addresses the Health Inequalities CPG
- Loneliness and social isolation: an inequalities issue
- Sir Harry Burns on The Failure of Public Policy
- Ian’s blog: Improving the health of Scotland’s people
- Sarah’s blog: Getting The Picture with Dr John Ennis
- More About Us: VHS Annual Review 2018
- Claire's blog: Getting the Picture
- Improving Health, Influencing Public Health Workshop 27 November 2018
- Andy's Blog: The Chemist and the Poet are both right
- Jason's Blog: Shoulder to Shoulder
- Private Members Bill on Brexit, Health and Social Care seeks support
- Lynsay's Blog: Engaging bereaved families in a creative process to explore social isolation resulting from child death
- Kristin's Blog: Transforming the Treatment Matrix
- Audit Scotland reviews health and social care integration
- Third sector reframes public health discussion
- Minister for Mental Health meets Health Inequalities CPG
- Emma's Blog: Harmonious Place
- Chris's Blog: An App Designed by People with Aphasia for People with Aphasia
- Murray's Blog: Waverley Care Arts Project
- Chris's Blog: A Unique Route to Health & Wellbeing through Printmaking
- Claire’s Blog: next steps for third sector in Public Health Reform
- 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
- Briefings and Reports
- Essential Connections: report published looking into the range of community link worker programmes in Scotland
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network mid-year report
- SCLWN Knowledge Exchange Event- November 2023
- Health Inequalities Cross Party Group: October 2023 Meeting
- VHS Annual Conference 2023: The Health Creators Summit
- Community Link Workers and Peer Support
- Human Rights Bill for Scotland: Consultation Response
- Members Survey Analysis
- Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities: June 2023 Meeting
- Interim Report: Scottish Community Link Worker Network - Mapping Research
- National Outcomes Review: Consultation Response
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Knowledge Exchange Event June 2023
- Key Messages: Scottish Community Link Worker Network Annual Conference 2023
- VHS Members Meet Up: National Outcomes Review
- Consultation Responses: Freedom of Information Reform
- Consultation: FOI and access to information rights in Scotland
- Briefing on Health Inequalities in Scottish Prisons
- Community Link Workers and Peer Support
- CPG Health Inequalities: February 2023 Meeting
- Key Messages: Member meet up- Broader Reach and Stronger Voice
- Key Messages: Engaging in Effective Community Advocacy
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network: January Knowledge Exchange
- Community Link Workers, Mental Health and Audit Scotland
- Key Messages: AGM and Annual Lecture
- CPG Health Inequalities: December 2022 Meeting
- Parliamentary Debate: Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland
- Broader Reach and Stronger Voice: Reflecting on the inclusivity of the COVID-19 vaccine programme and collaboration with the third sector
- VHS Annual Conference 2022: Fair Health- Who Gets it?
- Members Meet Up: What price health? The Cost-of-Living Crisis, Health and the Third Sector
- CPG Health Inequalities: October 2022 Meeting
- SCLWN -Demonstrating impact on health inequalities follow up session
- Consultation Response: Data Strategy for Health and Social Care
- Report published on Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care
- Key Messages: Building a healthy and health creating Scotland
- Steven's Blog: Evaluating impact on Health Inequalities for Community Link Workers
- VHS and Scottish Community Link Worker Network publish review of training and development needs of Community Link Workers
- Report on Community Link Worker Peer Support Events
- Health Policy Officers Parliamentary Engagement Event
- Key Messages: Ageing well with the Open University
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Demonstrating impact on health inequalities
- Understanding the lived experience of COVID-19 for marginalised communities
- Health Policy Officers Network Discuss NPF4
- Key Messages: Data Strategy Health and Social Care
- CPG Health Inequalities: Active, Healthy and Creative Children in Scotland
- Key Messages: Members Meeting January 2022
- CPG Health Inequalities: Responses to the inverse care law in Scotland
- VHS AGM & Annual Lecture 2021
- Health at the Heart of Communities: Annual Conference Key Messages
- VHS Annual Conference Poster Finalists!
- Vaccine Inclusion: reducing inequalities one vaccine at a time: Key Messages
- Scoping a National Network for Community Link Workers
- Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland May & June Events
- Influencing the equitable delivery of the Covid vaccine
- Falling Off a Cliff at 65: February and March Round Tables
- VHS launch report ‘Vaccine Inclusion: reducing inequalities one vaccine at a time’
- CPG Health Inequalities: Deep social exclusion: dying whilst homeless in Scotland
- CPG Health Inequalities: A Human Rights Approach to Inclusion Health
- VHS response to Renewing Scotland's full potential in a digital world
- Ageing Well: a series of talks with the Open University
- #WeArePublicHealth: Conference Key Messages
- #WeArePublicHealth Poster Competition Finalists
- #WeArePublicHealth Conference Exhibitors
- Key Messages: Challenge Poverty Week: Food Insecurity, Poverty and Health
- Key Messages: Keeping the Conversation Going: Loneliness and Social Isolation
- Engaging with the Scottish Parliament during the pandemic
- HPON – Key Note Briefing for meeting held on 24th June
- Key Messages: Digitally Healthy- Health Literacy and Health Inequalities
- Key Messages: Rising Food Insecurity in times of COVID-19
- Key Messages: ACOSVO & VHS Health Leaders April Zoom Meeting
- CPG Health Inequalities: Impact of COVID-19 on Health Inequalities
- Key Messages: Discussions on COVID-19 Impact on Voluntary Health Sector, 23rd April
- HPON: Key Note Briefing for meeting held on 29th April 2020
- Key Messages: Digitally Healthy Members Zoom Meeting, 9th April
- Key Messages: Discussions on Covid-19 Impact on Voluntary Health Sector, 31st March and 1st April
- VHS Briefing: Impact of COVID-19 on Voluntary Health Organisations
- Falling Off a Cliff at 65: Discussion Paper and Evidence
- Key Messages: Shaping primary care for the next generation in rural Scotland
- CPG on Health Inequalities Discussion of Men's Health Inequalities
- Falling Off a Cliff at 65: Key Learnings
- VHS Annual Lecture 2019: Key Points and Presentations
- Lessons from WHO: Healthy Prosperous Lives for All
- Key Messages: VHS Annual Conference- Realising the Right to Health
- CPG Health Inequalities: The Future of Primary Care
- Key Messages: Third Sector Round Table on Preventing and Controlling Infection in Community Settings
- Arts + Health Scotland: Keeping the Conversation Going
- CPG Health Inequalities: Joint meeting with CPG Lung Health
- CPG Health Inequalities: Poverty and Health Inequalities
- Key Messages: Valuing and Sustaining Volunteering in Health Conference
- Key Messages: Culture, Health and Wellbeing in Rural Scotland
- Key Messages: Audit Scotland’s Review of Health and Social Care Integration
- Key Messages: Mental wellbeing, social isolation and loneliness in rural Scotland
- Conversation Notes: Culture, health and wellbeing
- Key Messages: The Future of Public Health- Bicycle or Frog?
- CPG Health Inequalities: Loneliness and social isolation
- Key Messages: VHS Annual Conference- Get The Picture
- CPG Health Inequalities: Mental Health
- Key Messages: Brexit and Health Briefing Event
- Connecting Health in Scotland and New Zealand: Note from the Meeting
- 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
- Essential Connections: report published looking into the range of community link worker programmes in Scotland
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network - November newsletter out now!
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network mid-year report
- Annette's Blog: Fit for Purpose
- Could you be our next Chief Executive?
- Funding guaranteed to sustain Glasgow City's community link worker programme
- SCLWN Knowledge Exchange Event- November 2023
- Jack's Community Link Worker Story
- Everything you need for the VHS AGM on 30th November 2023
- Public Sector Equality Duty Review Update
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network - October newsletter out now!
- VHS Annual Conference 2023: The Health Creators Summit
- Claire’s blog: building a health-creating society
- VHS Annual Conference 2023 Poster Finalists!
- Dr Sarah's Blog: “There’s always hope”
- Cara's Blog: A lifeline when no one else wants to give you an answer
- Ahmed and Jo’s Blog: Eat Well for Oral Health
- VHS is recruiting a Policy Engagement Lead
- Inviting nominations to the VHS Board
- Dr Oana’s Blog: Social Prescribing for Improving Communities Eating practices (SPICE)
- Audrey's Blog- Bringing a health inequalities lens to evaluation and learning
- Emma's Blog: Our inclusivity journey
- Jeni's Blog: Taking Art Home
- Jennifer's Blog: Why delivering child healthy weight matters
- Community Link Workers and Peer Support
- Human Rights Bill for Scotland: Consultation Response
- VHS Chief Executive Claire Stevens to retire in Spring 2024
- Members Survey Analysis
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network - September Newsletter out now!
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter out now!
- Investing in Community Link Workers - Now or Never
- Sandra's Blog: Highland Social Prescribing Event
- Brian's Blog: using the power of sport to help older people be more active
- Lorraine's Blog: Improving mental health and wellbeing with Linburn Therapy Hub
- Doug's Blog: why past military service matters for health and wellbeing in later life
- Could you be our new Communications and Membership Officer?
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter - out now!
- Community of Practice on Addressing Racialised Inequalities
- Health Policy Officers Network Knowledge Exchange
- Lucy's Blog: Exploring Health Inequalities in Scotland through a Human Rights Lens
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter - out now!
- Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities: June 2023 Meeting
- Interim Report: Scottish Community Link Worker Network - Mapping Research
- National Outcomes Review: Consultation Response
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter out now!
- Key Messages: Scottish Community Link Worker Network Annual Conference 2023
- VHS Members Meet Up: National Outcomes Review
- Murdoch's Blog: Connecting Human Kindness to Human Crisis
- Laura’s blog: How community link workers can help people access disability benefits
- Roisin's Blog: Giving a Voice to Scotland's Community Link Workers
- Health Policy Officers Network Knowledge Exchange
- Helen's Blog: Walking and wheeling can be the best medicine
- Michael's Blog: The Art of Combatting Loneliness
- What’s new? Read our May 2023 e- bulletin
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter - out now!
- Danny’s blog: Edinburgh Community Link Workers and RSPB Edinburgh Partnership
- Clare’s Blog: stigma, financial support and the cost-of-living crisis
- Laura's Blog: A Community Link Worker Case Study
- What’s new? Read our April 2023 e- bulletin
- Consultation Responses: Freedom of Information Reform
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter - out now!
- Has community planning made a difference?
- What’s new? Read our March 2023 e- bulletin
- Consultation: FOI and access to information rights in Scotland
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter - out now!
- Briefing on Health Inequalities in Scottish Prisons
- Community Link Workers and Peer Support
- What's new? Read our February 2023 e-bulletin
- Community Link Worker Mapping - Online Survey
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter out now!
- Community Link Workers, Mental Health and Audit Scotland
- Change Mental Health: Community Link Worker Newsletter
- Opportunity to contribute to research into dance and dementia
- What’s new? Read our January 2023 e- bulletin
- Parliamentary Debate: Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter
- Community Link Workers joined Audit Scotland to share views on Adult Mental Health Services
- What’s new? Read our December 2022 e- bulletin
- Broader Reach and Stronger Voice: Reflecting on the inclusivity of the COVID-19 vaccine programme and collaboration with the third sector
- What’s new? Read our November 2022 e- bulletin
- Leanne's blog: see me, listen, be honest, help me understand
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter
- Ann-Marie's Blog: Fair enough?
- Kym's Blog: Industry’s Role in Health Inequalities
- Mark's Blog: partnering to support health and wellbeing
- Jennifer's Blog: The growing cost of a healthy diet
- Consultation Response: Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
- Marion's Blog: Libraries - A Collective Force for Health & Wellbeing
- VHS Annual Conference 2022 Poster Finalists!
- Kevin's Blog: A Day At The Hub, In The Community and A Story Of Proactive Prevention
- Margaret Ann's Blog: Fair Health- Community Links at Work
- Maisie's Blog: Protecting human rights in an evolving digital landscape
- Martyna's Blog: Healthy sleep – who gets it?
- See Me's Blog: With Fairness in Mind
- Bushra's Blog: Diversity in organ donation within Scotland
- Toni's Blog: Hidden Sentences – the impact of imprisonment on the health and wellbeing of families
- Hilda's Blog: Challenges on the sea of life and what can sustain us
- Lisa's Blog: Engaging communities towards being smoke-free: reducing poverty and health inequalities
- Avril's Blog: Learn about ME
- Bella's Blog: Intergenerational relationships and health
- Tanith's Blog: The National Care Service Needs a Blueprint, a Schedule and a Budget
- What’s new? Read our October 2022 e- bulletin
- VHS insights into Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland
- Celebrating the Work of the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter
- Strengthening Audit Scotland and third sector engagement
- Macmillan Cancer Support: Person-Centred Care Competency Framework
- Scottish Parliament Information Centre Blog: The National Care Service will be here soon…or will it?
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Supporting CLWs' Wellbeing and Resilience
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Knowledge Exchange Event Presentations
- What’s new? Read our September 2022 e- bulletin
- Age Scotland: Dementia Training
- SCLWN -Demonstrating impact on health inequalities follow up session
- What’s new? Read our August 2022 e- bulletin
- Consultation Response: Data Strategy for Health and Social Care
- Iona’s blog: Referring back – accessing support in crisis
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network Newsletter
- Leanne's Blog: Supporting people with long-term health conditions
- Online Event: Parliament's scrutiny of the National Care Service Bill
- Avril’s Blog: Making the links to support people with M.E.
- What’s new? Read our July 2022 e- bulletin
- Consultation Response: Cancer Strategy
- Consultation Response: Health and Social Care Strategy for Older People
- VHS exhibits poster at NHS Scotland 2022 event
- Campaign: A Scotland that Cares
- What’s new? Read our June 2022 e-bulletin
- Blog: Influencing the health inequalities inquiry
- Steven's Blog: Evaluating impact on Health Inequalities for Community Link Workers
- Inquiry into Health Inequalities hears oral evidence from VHS
- VHS and Scottish Community Link Worker Network publish review of training and development needs of Community Link Workers
- Anna’s Blog: Tackling Health Inequalities through the Huruma Project
- We are recruiting: Policy and Research Officer (Scottish Community Link Worker Network)
- What’s new? Read our May 2022 e- bulletin
- VHS launches survey on the COVID-19 vaccine programme
- VHS launches its 2022-25 strategy
- Update on the COVID-19 Highest Risk List
- Opportunity to build your own information support app
- Engagement Events: Health Inequalities Inquiry
- Consultation Response: Public Sector Equality Duty in Scotland
- What’s new? Read our April 2022 e- bulletin
- Health Policy Officers Parliamentary Engagement Event
- New funding to boost the Scottish Community Link Worker Network
- Consultation Response: Health Inequalities Inquiry
- Consultation Response: Draft National Planning Framework 4
- Andrea's Blog: Supporting people from disadvantaged backgrounds with their alcohol problems
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Demonstrating impact on health inequalities
- Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care spotlights link working
- A Chance to Change Primary Care and Tackle Health Inequalities
- Understanding the lived experience of COVID-19 for marginalised communities
- Action urged on underpayment of children's social care workers
- What’s new? Read our March 2022 e- bulletin
- Scottish Community Link Worker Network is now on Twitter!
- HPON Parliamentary Awareness Event
- Health Policy Officers Network Discuss NPF4
- Bella's Blog: Building an Intergenerational Nation
- Bushra's Blog: Tackling organ and tissue donation inequalities in South Asian communities
- What’s new? Read our February 2022 e- bulletin
- Key Messages: Members Meeting January 2022
- NPF4, what's health got to do with it?
- Updating the SIGN guidelines for the care of deteriorating patients
- What’s new? Read our January 2022 e- bulletin
- Consultation Response: Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill
- Nicola's Blog: Demonstrating CLWs' Impact on Tackling Health Inequalities
- Micro-grants to communities boost Covid-19 vaccines and testing
- Scottish Government Budget 2022-23
- CPG Health Inequalities: Responses to the inverse care law in Scotland
- What’s new? Read our December 2021 e- bulletin
- Kiren's Blog: Loneliness & social isolation in the time of COVID-19
- VHS AGM & Annual Lecture 2021
- Health at the Heart of Communities: what's love got to do with it?
- What’s new? Read our November 2021 e- bulletin
- A National Care Service for Scotland: Consultation Response
- Celebrate the covid heroes – but what about the other volunteers?
- Wendy’s blog: See Us make a difference together
- Kimberley's blog: Looking beyond COVID
- Health at the Heart of Communities: Annual Conference Key Messages
- Leon's Blog: Community-led wellbeing
- Ewan's Blog: How to have your voice heard at Scottish Parliament
- What's new? Read our October 2021 e-bulletin
- Rebecca's Blog: The Treasures We Seek
- Laura's Blog: Inaccessible health information during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Grant's Blog: Years of healthy life lost in Scotland’s communities
- Bella's Blog: Intergenerational approaches make a real difference
- VHS Annual Conference Poster Finalists!
- Jonathan's Blog: Scotland’s Coalition for Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives
- Maisie's Blog: Discover Digital: the digital landscape and the seldom heard
- Sonia's Blog: Chronic pain- Accessing Self-Management during the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Marion's Blog: Ceilidh @ home
- Amy's Blog: Experiences from the ActWELL trial
- Sue's Blog: Establishing The World’s First Virtual Children’s Hospice
- Felicity's Blog: Reaching & serving new parents during the pandemic
- Kirsty's blog: Oral Health Education and Ethnic Minorities
- Neil's Blog: The Brain Tumour Charity’s Step-By-Step Interactive Guide
- Iona's Blog: Art and Minds – Taking Room for Art a step further...
- Helen's Blog: Keeping hearts pumping and spirits up during COVID
- Chris's Blog: SHAAP’s advice for heavy drinkers who are thinking about cutting back or stopping drinking alcohol
- Charities Call for Action on Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
- What’s new? Read our September 2021 e- bulletin
- Marie's Blog: Building a Connected Recovery
- Luke's Blog: my call for other young adults to get vaccinated
- What’s new? Read our August 2021 e- bulletin
- Scoping a National Network for Community Link Workers
- What's new? Read our July 2021 e-bulletin
- VHS is recruiting: Policy Engagement Officer
- Influencing the equitable delivery of the Covid vaccine
- How British Red Cross have been supporting people in Scotland through the Coronavirus crisis
- Kiren's Blog: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
- What’s new? Read our June 2021 e- bulletin
- On camera: creating health through arts and culture
- What's new? Read our May 2021 e-bulletin
- Summary of Scottish Party Manifestos 2021 Elections
- Health Policy Officers Network: Save the Date!
- COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment for Marginalised Groups in Scotland
- Join the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care
- VHS launch report ‘Vaccine Inclusion: reducing inequalities one vaccine at a time’
- What's new? Read our April 2021 e-bulletin
- Understanding National Services Scotland and its partnership work
- What’s new? Read our March 2021 e- bulletin
- Waverley Care responds to VHS survey on Covid-19 vaccine inequalities
- Donald's Blog: “I need to be found”: mental health and older age
- Helen's Blog: To survive and then thrive we need the right balance of critical thinking, practical action, and hope
- Survey exploring enablers and barriers to uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine
- Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, transparency and inclusion
- Engage with the Inequalities in Health Alliance
- Lucie's Blog: Know what’s working to prevent homelessness? Crisis want to hear from you
- What's new? Read our January 2021 e-bulletin
- VHS response to Renewing Scotland's full potential in a digital world
- Morna's Blog: why we’re getting #LouderForMS
- What's new? Read our December 2020 e-bulletin
- Chris's blog: Caring, creativity and connectedness in Tayside during Covid-19
- Robbie’s Blog: Atlas Pandemica - Maps to a Kinder World
- Allyson's blog: Reflections on #WeArePublicHealth
- Claire's Blog: Building Forward Better for the Health and Care Workforce
- Pamela's Blog: Health on the Shelf
- Mairi's Blog: Now, more than ever, we’re here to listen
- Tanith's Blog:“We’ve been there!” Why under 65s with Parkinson’s developed a flexible online event for other younger people with Parkinson’s this November
- Iona's Blog: Room for Art- Keeping participants creative and well in their homes during Covid 19
- Daren's Blog: West Dunbartonshire Cares
- Kayleigh's Blog: Virtual Peer Support for Parents in Ayrshire
- Anna's Blog: guided by women’s feedback and lived experience
- Cara's Blog: Breast Buddies Virtual Antenatal Education
- Richard's Blog: Past, Present and Future
- Felicity's Blog: National Breastfeeding Helpline – our response to the Covid-19 pandemic
- #WeArePublicHealth Conference Exhibitors
- Marion's Blog: Safeguarding for health & wellbeing
- Nathan's Blog: Fast-Tracking Scotland to end the HIV epidemic
- Shereen's Blog: Responding to the crisis
- Tackling physical inactivity is more important than ever say leading health charities
- National Clinical Director shares Clear Pathway evaluation report with NHS Boards
- Taking a human rights approach to recovery from COVID-19
- Screening Inequalities Fund 2020/21 opens
- What's new? Read our September 2020 e-bulletin
- Programme for Government promises protection and renewal
- Laura's Blog: Becoming Co-Convenor of the Health Policy Officers Network
- What's new - read our August 2020 e-bulletin
- Alan's Blog: Impossible to Ignore
- Inclusion Scotland Social Care Support Survey
- Public consultation on NHS Near Me
- Nominate someone special for a Scottish Children’s Health Award
- HPON – Key Note Briefing for meeting held on 24th June
- What's new? Read our July 2020 e-bulletin
- Janis's Blog: Covid-19 the Communication Virus
- Claudia's Blog: People Know How releases study on combating digital exclusion
- Key Messages: Rising Food Insecurity in times of COVID-19
- Richard’s blog: BHF is still supporting the nation’s hearts at home
- What's new? Read our June 2020 E-bulletin
- Celebrating Scotland's volunteers in health during #VolunteersWeekScot
- Hugh's blog: The Future of Health and Wellbeing in Scotland
- Holly's Blog - Highland Hello: making a small gesture of connection
- Health Charities: The Mortar Between the Bricks
- COVID-19: A pandemic in the age of inequality
- May's Blog: Scottish Mediation and COVID-19
- Lesley's Blog: Support for Survivors of Rape and Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Loneliness and Self-Isolation: Longterm Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis
- HPON: Key Note Briefing for meeting held on 29th April 2020
- What's new - read our May 2020 e-bulletin
- Jimmy's Blog: Providing vital support for people living with blood borne viruses during COVID-19 lockdown
- People Know How: staying connected during coronavirus
- Craig's Blog: Are we at risk of mothballing our support needs?
- John's Blog: Social Distancing – An opportunity to find new ways to connect
- Shereen's Blog: #Remoteworking to stay connected
- Ian's Blog: RNIB Scotland, staying touch with people with sight loss
- COVID-19 Funding for the Voluntary Health Sector
- What's new? Read our April 2020 E-bulletin
- VHS Briefing: Impact of COVID-19 on Voluntary Health Organisations
- Rob's blog: Cancer Support Scotland - Here For Your Wellbeing
- CHSS launch 'Scotland Against Coronavirus' volunteering campaign
- COVID-19 and Voluntary Health Organisations Survey
- Coronavirus and support for people with HIV, hepatitis C or sexual health
- COVID-19: Message for our Members and Stakeholders
- What's new? Read our March 2020 e-bulletin
- Falling Off a Cliff at 65: Discussion Paper and Evidence
- An Overview of VHS’s Associate Membership 2020
- Claire's blog: Culture Strategy will support good health and wellbeing
- Allyson's blog: A Public Mental Health Workshop
- VHS response to the Health and Sport Committee Inquiry into Social Care
- What's new? Read our February 2020 e-bulletin
- Volunteering in Health: help VHS evaluate the Clear Pathway Guidance
- Emma's blog: Public Health and the Empowerment of Communities
- What's new? Read our January 2020 e-bulletin
- Linda's Blog: The IMPACT of Smoking on Mental Health
- Our Festive Break Christmas 2019
- Leonie's Blog: Culture, Health and Social Change
- What's new? Read our December 2019 e-bulletin
- VHS poster at the Faculty of Public Health Conference 2019
- Heather's Blog: Enabling access to screening
- Jan-Bert's blog: Creating a Shared Space for Culture and Health
- Lessons from WHO: Healthy Prosperous Lives for All
- What's new? Read our November 2019 e-bulletin
- NHS Health Scotland Blog: Child poverty – it’s just not on
- Key Messages: VHS Annual Conference- Realising the Right to Health
- What's new? Read our October 2019 e-bulletin
- Lindsay's Blog: Draft Social Security Standards consultation – your chance to contribute!
- Voluntary Health Scotland Response to the Health and Sport Committee Stage 2 Inquiry into Primary Care
- Kate's Blog: Rights of way: What affects older adults walking to stay healthy and happy?
- Jo's Blog: Health Defence Scotland for Healthier Lives
- What's new? Read our September e-bulletin
- Anne's Blog: Children and Young People’s Health Rights eLearning Resource
- Caroline's Blog: The Truacanta Project- helping each other with death, dying, loss and care
- John's Blog: Rights, Respect and Recovery
- Laura's Blog: Communication Failure for Blind and Partially Sighted People
- Margaret Ann's Blog: Envisaging Change for Young Adults with Poor Mental Health
- Ronnie's Blog: OPAL and Ceartas Crossfit Project 2018
- Sheila's Blog: Angus Creative Minds- One Size Doesn’t Fit All
- Derek's Blog: What do you mean, I have the right to health?
- Nicola's Blog: How to Make Scotland a Leader in Falls Prevention
- Arts + Health Scotland: Keeping the Conversation Going
- Police Scotland Equity & Diversity Unit Blog: Reporting Hate Crime
- Irene's blog: Get Ready to Challenge Poverty
- What's new? Read our August 2019 e-bulletin
- Kiren’s Blog: From Ljubljana and back – a journey to the WHO conference
- Paths for All Blog: Public Health Scotland - an opportunity to shape public health in Scotland for a generation
- VHS response to Public Health Scotland Consultation
- What's new? Read our July 2019 e-bulletin
- Hilda's Blog: Jigsaw Project
- What's new? Read our June 2019 e-bulletin
- Lisa’s Blog: Volunteering at The Victoria Hospice
- Susan's Blog: Tackling the Inverse Volunteering Law
- Helen's Blog: Time to Celebrate – Volunteering for All
- Understanding the Good Food Nation Bill
- Scottish Government consults on public health reform
- Alison's Blog: Partnership and Collaboration
- Clare's blog: Working Together to Address Inequality
- Galvanising arts and health across Scotland
- Key Messages: Valuing and Sustaining Volunteering in Health Conference
- What's new? read our May 2019 bulletin
- Third sector partners in force at NHS Scotland event 30-31 May 2019
- Key Messages: Culture, Health and Wellbeing in Rural Scotland
- What's new? Read our April 2019 e-bulletin
- Key Messages: Audit Scotland’s Review of Health and Social Care Integration
- What's new? Read our March 2019 e-bulletin
- WHO to publish case study on CPG on Health Inequalities
- VHS adopts new charitable purposes and constitution
- Key Messages: Mental wellbeing, social isolation and loneliness in rural Scotland
- Key Messages: The Future of Public Health- Bicycle or Frog?
- Claire's blog: the future of public health, bicycle or frog?
- What's new? Read our February 2019 e-bulletin
- Kiren's Blog: Understanding Loneliness and Social Isolation in Scotland
- Human Rights in Scotland: Setting out the basics
- Sarah's briefing: Volunteering and A Connected Scotland
- VHS calls on its Members to vote
- What's new? Read our January 2019 e-bulletin
- Launch: A Connected Scotland
- Minister for Public Health, Sport & Wellbeing addresses the Health Inequalities CPG
- Loneliness and social isolation: an inequalities issue
- Sir Harry Burns on The Failure of Public Policy
- Ian’s blog: Improving the health of Scotland’s people
- What's new? Read our December 2018 e-bulletin
- VHS Membership Survey Results 2018
- The Zubairi Report
- Sarah’s blog: Getting The Picture with Dr John Ennis
- More About Us: VHS Annual Review 2018
- Claire's blog: Getting the Picture
- Andy's Blog: The Chemist and the Poet are both right
- Jason's Blog: Shoulder to Shoulder
- Private Members Bill on Brexit, Health and Social Care seeks support
- What's new? Read our November 2018 e-bulletin
- Lynsay's Blog: Engaging bereaved families in a creative process to explore social isolation resulting from child death
- Kristin's Blog: Transforming the Treatment Matrix
- Third sector reframes public health discussion
- Minister for Mental Health meets Health Inequalities CPG
- Emma's Blog: Harmonious Place
- Chris's Blog: An App Designed by People with Aphasia for People with Aphasia
- Murray's Blog: Waverley Care Arts Project
- Chris's Blog: A Unique Route to Health & Wellbeing through Printmaking
- What's new? Read our October 2018 bulletin
- Claire’s Blog: next steps for third sector in Public Health Reform
- 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
- Learning to Lead in Health
- 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
- Participants
- What we do
- National Clinical Director shares Clear Pathway evaluation report with NHS Boards
- VHS calls on its Members to vote
- Claire's blog: what's in a strategy?
- Scottish Government issues Clear Pathway guidance to Health Boards
- VHS study - scoping community links workers
- Clear Pathway
- Digital Inclusion for Health
- Learning to Lead in Health
- The Engagement Matrix
- Current
- New funding to boost the Scottish Community Link Worker Network
- VHS is recruiting: Policy Engagement Officer
- Influencing the equitable delivery of the Covid vaccine
- VHS calls on its Members to vote
- Claire's blog: what's in a strategy?
- Scottish Government issues Clear Pathway guidance to Health Boards
- Help complete picture of third sector volunteering in health
- VHS study - scoping community links workers
- Past
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