Key Messages: Audit Scotland’s Review of Health and Social Care Integration
VHS held a meeting on 27th February 2019 with the aim of discussing the key findings from this second audit and their implications for the third sector. The final report […]
Kiren’s Blog: Understanding Loneliness and Social Isolation in Scotland
Last year I conducted social research with a group of 57 people through 5 focus groups and 6 interviews and learned about – what loneliness and social isolation is, how […]
Human Rights in Scotland: Setting out the basics
Voluntary Health Scotland’s three year strategy focuses our work towards understanding and incorporating a human rights based approach to health with an added emphasis on the underlying social and economic determinants […]
Launch: A Connected Scotland
VHS welcome the newly published Scottish Government Strategy, A Connected Scotland which aims to tackle loneliness and social isolation in Scotland. This strategy will run from 2018 to 2026 and […]
Loneliness and social isolation: an inequalities issue
Earlier this year VHS conducted an exercise in listening. We tried to explore the lived experience of loneliness and social isolation in Scotland and this exercise culminated in The Zubairi […]
VHS Membership Survey Results 2018
In July 2018 VHS sent out a membership survey to its 156 member organisations. We received 73 completed surveys. 32 member organisations provided their details whilst 41 provided responded anonymously. […]
The Zubairi Report
Our new publication, The Zubairi Report: the lived experience of loneliness and social isolation in Scotland, is now available online. The qualitative study investigates the loneliness and social isolation experienced […]
VHS Response to the Draft Culture Strategy for Scotland
VHS have submitted our response to the Scottish Government’s draft culture strategy. You can view our full response here: VHS Response to the Draft Culture Strategy Final In our response we […]
HPON: Planning (Scotland) Bill Evidence Briefing
Members of the Health Policy Officers Network (HPON), Alcohol Focus Scotland, Obesity Action Scotland, Nourish Scotland, Samaritans Scotland and Voluntary Health Scotland, have co-produced a briefing to help inform the Local […]
A Connected Scotland Update
The consultation period for the draft Social Isolation and Loneliness strategy, A Connected Scotland ended on 27th April 2018. The Scottish Government received 416 consultation responses, ranging from large national […]
