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Key Messages and Presentations: VHS Annual Conference 2023

October 26, 2023

VHS hosted our annual conference on 25th October 2023 at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, titled The Health Creators Summit.

View the photos from the day: (click to scroll through them)
The Health Creators Summit 2023

The event brought Health Creators from across Scotland together to explore some key themes around health inequalities:

  • How do we engender a different approach towards health
  • What if we focused on building a healthy and health-creating society, harnessing the power and partnership of third sector, communities, businesses, faith groups, ordinary citizens, pioneers within the public sphere
  • What progress are we making in tackling the impact of social isolation and loneliness on physical and mental health
  • How do we address the big gaps in mental health service provision
  • “It doesn’t have to be like this”: our worsening health inequalities – what if we actually shifted to a preventative agenda

Read our Chief Executive, Claire Steven’s Blog: Building a health creating society

We were delighted to welcome so many to the event along with the excellent exhibitors.

Read the Conference Key Messages Report here.

View the PowerPoint presentations from the day here:

Nigel Crisp, Health is Made at Home

Angiolina Foster, Public Health Scotland

Mark MacPherson, Audit Scotland

Congratulations to the poster competition winner of 2023: Make 2nds Count- “There’s always hope”

You can view all the posters and the blogs here. Thank you to all our poster presenters of the 2023 Annual Poster Competition.

Thank you to our excellent exhibitors from the day:

Please contact Lauren Blair with any questions.

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