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 […]
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 […]
Health Inequalities Cross Party Group: June Meeting

The next meeting for the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities will take place in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 15th June 2017 in Committee Room 3. The topic of this meeting […]
Health Inequalities Cross Party Group: June Meeting

The next meeting for the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities will take place in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 15th June 2017 in Committee Room 3. The topic of this meeting […]
Health Inequalities Cross Party Group Meeting: March 2017
The next meeting for the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities will take place in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 30th March 2017 in Committee Room 6. At this meeting the Group […]
Health Inequalities Cross Party Group Meeting: March 2017
The next meeting for the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities will take place in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 30th March 2017 in Committee Room 6. At this meeting the Group […]
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 […]
Dinah’s blog: Learning difficulties and loneliness for children, young people and families

Loneliness can affect anyone, and this is also true for children and young people even when they spend much of their day in amongst their peers. The busy, noisy and […]
Health Inequalities Cross Party Group Meeting

The next meeting for the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities will take place in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday19th January 2017 in Committee Room 6. As proposed by Monica Lennon […]
Health Inequalities Cross Party Group Meeting

The next meeting for the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities will take place in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday19th January 2017 in Committee Room 6. As proposed by Monica Lennon […]