**These events are aimed specifically at Community Link Workers who are working directly within a Primary Care setting in Scotland**. To support CLWs’ wellbeing and to enable CLWs to share learning and good practice, the Scottish Community Link Worker Network will be running two peer support events in early 2022 on these dates: (please book […]
Over the course of 2020 and in January 2021, VHS ran a series of events on ageing well with the Open University. Led by Dr Jitka Vsecteckova, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care with the Open University, with discussion and input from third sector staff, volunteers and older people themselves, these […]
The recently published digital health and care strategy commits to the development of Scotland’s first ever dedicated Data Strategy. It's important that people are at the heart of any developments and that trust is built in how our data is stored and used. The working vision of the Strategy is to ensure health and care […]
**These events are aimed specifically at Community Link Workers who are working directly within a Primary Care setting in Scotland**. To support CLWs’ wellbeing and to enable CLWs to share learning and good practice, the Scottish Community Link Worker Network will be running two peer support events in early 2022 on these dates: (please book […]
On Monday 7th February the Scottish Parliament is holding an engagement event on the draft National Planning Framework (NPF4) consultation. VHS are hosting a break-out session we’d like to invite members to take part in. The Parliament will confirm the start and running times early in January, but meantime we are seeking expressions of interest […]
Join us for the next meeting of this Parliamentary term of the Health Inequalities Cross Party Group. The next meeting of the group will take place on Tuesday 1 February at 12.30 online via Zoom and will be chaired by Brian Whittle MSP. Meeting topic: Active, Healthy and Creative Children in Scotland Book your place […]
VHS would like to invite our members to join us on the 25th of January for an online meet up. It has been nearly 2 years that we have been working through a pandemic. As we start 2022, we are asking our members to join us as we look to the year ahead and discuss […]
***This event is aimed specifically at Community Link Workers who are working directly within a Primary Care setting in Scotland and who would be interested in understanding how to demonstrate their impact on tackling health inequalities.*** Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) and Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) are holding a joint learning workshop to help Community Link […]
***This event is aimed specifically at Community Link Workers who are working directly within a Primary Care setting in Scotland and who would be interested in understanding how to demonstrate their impact on tackling health inequalities.*** Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) and Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) are holding a joint learning workshop to help Community Link […]
Creative Coffee Break Conversation: A frame is not a state of mind An event by Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland. “Health inequalities are the unjust and avoidable differences in people’s health across the population and between specific population groups. Health inequalities go against the principles of social justice because they are avoidable. They do […]
