Scottish Government consults on public health reform
VHS encourages our members (and indeed any third sector organisation) to respond to the Public Health Scotland Consultation . The Scottish Government and COSLA want to hear your views on plans for […]
Clare’s blog: Working Together to Address Inequality
Clare Cable is Chief Executive and Senior Nurse Director at Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland. She writes: We are delighted that the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) has been chosen as one of […]
Galvanising arts and health across Scotland
VHS is delighted to partner with Arts + Health Scotland and Art in Hospital for a relaxed seminar bringing professionals from Scotland’s arts and health sectors together with invited speakers […]
Third sector partners in force at NHS Scotland event 30-31 May 2019
Registration for this year’s NHS Scotland Event (30th-31st May, Glasgow) is now open and is FREE. We were delighted that VHS was invited to put forward three of our member organisations […]
WHO to publish case study on CPG on Health Inequalities
In February 2019 the Venice based World Health Organisation European Office for Investment for Health and Development contacted VHS about the WHO Health Equity Status Report Initiative. WHO explained they wished to […]
Paul’s blog: Universal and equal rights to rehabilitation
Paul Okroj of Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland spoke at VHS’s EGM on 28th February 2018, on the topic of ‘universal and equal rights to rehabilitation’. Here we publish a transcript of […]
VHS adopts new charitable purposes and constitution
VHS now has a brand new constitution and charitable purposes, following an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 28th February 2019, where VHS’s Full Members voted unanimously to adopt new ARTICLES […]
Claire’s blog: the future of public health, bicycle or frog?
“Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It’s time to start thinking” nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford famously said. Addressing health inequalities shouldn’t be Mission Impossible, but we need to be […]
Sarah’s briefing: Volunteering and A Connected Scotland
Sarah Van Putten, Chief Executive of Befriending Networks, prepared this useful briefing for the Cross Party Group on Volunteering”s meeting in January and has kindly permitted VHS to reproduce it. […]
VHS calls on its Members to vote
VHS is seeking the approval of its Full Members, by Special Resolution, to replace the charity’s existing constitution with a new one. The new constitution is designed to serve our […]
