#WeArePublicHealth: Conference Key Messages

On the 4th and 5th of November VHS held our Annual Conference and AGM online for the first time. #WeArePublicHealth : Building Forward for Health & Wellbeing had over 120 […]
Pamela’s Blog: Health on the Shelf

If I told you that over 700,000 people used Scotland’s public libraries in 2019 for health related support – you may be surprised? This confirms what many people already know […]
Mairi’s Blog: Now, more than ever, we’re here to listen

Samaritans are here to listen for anyone who needs us 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Since the coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions we’re all taking to contain […]
Iona’s Blog: Room for Art- Keeping participants creative and well in their homes during Covid 19

Room for Art is social prescribing project, providing visual arts workshops facilitated by professional artists. Our participants are referred by GPs, OTs, community link workers, social care agencies, and through […]
Daren’s Blog: West Dunbartonshire Cares

Here at West Dunbartonshire CVS, the local Third Sector Interface, we pride ourselves on our community focus and our commitment to co-producing services with those who will ultimately use them. […]
Kayleigh’s Blog: Virtual Peer Support for Parents in Ayrshire

In Ayrshire the Breastfeeding Network Peer supporters work in partnership with midwives, health visitors and the infant feeding team to create an Integrated Infant Feeding Team. Our peer supporters offer […]
Anna’s Blog: guided by women’s feedback and lived experience

CLiCK is a Scotland-wide project supporting women who sell or exchange sex. We are a partnership of organisations working together with women’s needs and voices at the heart of the […]
Cara’s Blog: Breast Buddies Virtual Antenatal Education

Informing families and facilitating friendships The idea for Breast Buddies (BB), a mum to mum peer support service for new mothers, originated in Perth & Kinross and was conceived and […]
Richard’s Blog: Past, Present and Future

Caring for those approaching the end of life in Scottish Hospitals Over half a million Scots will die in acute hospitals in the next twenty years, and millions of people […]
Felicity’s Blog: National Breastfeeding Helpline – our response to the Covid-19 pandemic

During the Covid pandemic this year, the National Breastfeeding Helpline has provided (and continues to do so) a vital service to families, offering evidence based, non-judgmental, unbiased, accessible breastfeeding information […]