Key Messages: Health and Social Care Integration Edinburgh Workshop with Audit Scotland

As part of its role in facilitating third sector engagement in the Health and Social Care Integration (H&SCI) agenda, VHS is leading discussions between Audit Scotland, members of the Third Sector […]
Conference Key Messages: Closing the Gap

Voluntary Health Scotland held our annual conference and AGM on Wednesday the 11th of November in Edinburgh. The purpose of the conference was to make Scotland’s health inequalities a much […]
Katie’s blog: Closing the Gap conference reflections

”We all have a piece of the jigsaw but are seeing the picture differently,” Hilda Campbell of COPE Scotland said of efforts to tackle health inequalities at Voluntary Health Scotland’s […]
Discussion Note: Audit Scotland examines emerging risks in health and social care integration

Audit Scotland invited VHS to help it engage with the third sector during its current audit of health and social care integration. We organised an engagement meeting on 19th October 2015, involving […]
Key Messages: Living in the Gap Dundee Seminar

Our Dundee seminar on 1st October brought together 42 people from the third sector and NHS, to introduce Living in the Gap to a wider audience and use it as […]
Key Messages: Living in the Gap Glasgow Seminar

VHS’s Glasgow seminar on 27th August 2015 brought together 65 people from the third sector and NHS, to introduce Living in the Gap to a wider audience and use it […]
Key Messages: Third Sector, Health and Scottish Govenment Learning Exchanges 2015

Earlier this year Community Food and Health Scotland, CHEX and Voluntary Health Scotland organised a series of learning exchanges and study visits between public sector workers and those working in the community and voluntary health sector. Reports for these events have now been completed and are available to download, along with videos from the days.
Key Messages: Equal Partners April 2015

On 29th of April 2015 a collaborative event took place under the banner of Equal Partners, co-produced by The Scottish Government Third Sector Unit, ACOSVO, Children in Scotland and Voluntary Health […]
Learning Exchange for national and local organisations involved in health
Knowing Me Knowing You2 Tuesday 3rd March 2015, 13.00 – 16.00 IET Teacher Building, St Enoch’s Square, Glasgow Free event including networking lunch Who should attend: Government and NHS decision […]
The Engagement Matrix

Scotland’s Healthcare Quality Strategy aims to support people to live longer, healthier lives. The Quality Strategy set out commitments to improve the quality of people’s healthcare and experience of healthcare. In […]