Blog: Influencing the health inequalities inquiry
Voluntary Health Scotland helped facilitate four informal engagement events as part of the Health, Social Care & Sport Committee’s inquiry into health inequalities. This work was led by the Scottish […]
Steven’s Blog: Evaluating impact on Health Inequalities for Community Link Workers
On the 31st May 2022, Evaluation Support Scotland and VHS held a workshop for Community Link Workers. What we did The aim of this half-day online workshop run by Evaluation […]
Inquiry into Health Inequalities hears oral evidence from VHS
VHS’s Chief Executive Claire Stevens has given evidence to the Health Social Care and Sport Committee in the Scottish Parliament, as they begin taking oral evidence for their Inquiry into […]
Jen’s Blog: Eat Well Age Well: Preventing Malnutrition in Older Adults
Jen Grant, Project Dietitian from Eat Well Age Well talks about the work they do to prevent malnutrition in older adults
Fiona’s Blog: the benefits of therapeutic gardening to people’s wellbeing
Fiona Thackeray from Trellis: Scotland’s Network for Therapeutic Gardening, explains how their services can support people’s health and wellbeing.
Anna’s Blog: Tackling Health Inequalities through the Huruma Project
What does Huruma mean? you may wonder. It’s a Swahili word meaning “compassion”; we all need compassion at some point in our lives and therefore we are proud to share […]
VHS launches its 2022-25 strategy
VHS’s Chief Executive Claire Stevens writes: Today, 2nd May 2022, I am delighted to launch VHS’s new Three Year Strategy 2022-25. Delayed for a year by the pandemic, our new […]
Opportunity to build your own information support app
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) and Voluntary Health Scotland are seeking up to 6 third sector organisations to pilot use of the national Right Decision Service platform […]
New funding to boost the Scottish Community Link Worker Network
We are delighted to announce that the Scottish Government Primary Care Division has awarded VHS a grant to support further development of the Scottish Community Link Worker throughout 2022-23. The […]
Andrea’s Blog: Supporting people from disadvantaged backgrounds with their alcohol problems
Specialist Alcohol Service Helps to Break Down Barriers Alcohol causes significant health and socials harm to the Scottish population. People from the most deprived areas in Scotland experience greater inequalities […]
