Key Messages: Glasgow Mental Health and Social Support Seminar
VHS, the Open University and Support in Mind Scotland have partnered together to present a programme of events across the country on mental health and social support, running between November […]
Claire’s blog: Loneliness is a hard slog so let’s tackle it together
“I am very keen to keep on prodding out to the community. We look like a secret service building or prison, but we are actually quite nice and if you […]
VHS Response to Health and Sport Committee Call for Evidence
The Health and Sport Committee’s call for evidence is looking into the engagement between Integration Authorities and third sector, patients and carers. Our response is based on roundtable events we […]
Key Messages: Loneliness Seminar, The Gathering 2017
On the 23rd February VHS held an interactive seminar with keynote speaker Trevor Owen, and a panel of four third sector organisations; Befriending Networks, Age Scotland, British Red Cross, and the […]
Summary Briefing: The Lobbying Act for a Third Sector Audience
The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, better known as the ‘Lobbying Act’, has been the focus of much speculation and has caused immense confusion […]
Help complete picture of third sector volunteering in health
Can you spare five minutes to tell us how you involve volunteers in NHS settings in Scotland? You can help us to complete our data collection for Clear Pathway by […]
VHS response to National Health and Social Care Standards Consultation
During October 2016 and January 2017 the Scottish Government consulted on the New National Health and Social Care Standards. VHS’s response focused on, what worked well, how well the standards […]
VHS planning response to consultation on New Health and Social Care Standards
VHS are planning a response to the Scottish Government Consultation on the New Health and Social Care Standards. To help inform our response we held an information and discussion session […]
Kiren’s blog: The Spirit of Kinder Communities
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Carnegie UK Trust discussion paper; ‘Kinder Communities: The Power of Everyday Relationships’ sets out some really interesting approaches to the way in which small […]
Gender and health inequalities
VHS recently contributed to an Engender round table exploring health inequalities as they affect women. Engender is a feminist organisation working to address women’s inequality in Scotland. They are developing a Gender […]
