Mental health and smoking: a voluntary sector perspective
ASH Scotland, the independent Scottish charity taking action to reduce the harm caused by tobacco, worked with VHS during April-May 2015 on an area of mutual interest: mental health. VHS […]
VHS Annual Conference & AGM- Closing the Gap: Making Health Inequalities Everyone’s Business

Voluntary health Scotland will bring together key people from across Scotland to discuss how we tackle health inequalities and how we work collaboratively to close the widening gap.
VHS Annual Conference & AGM- Closing the Gap: Making Health Inequalities Everyone’s Business

Voluntary health Scotland will bring together key people from across Scotland to discuss how we tackle health inequalities and how we work collaboratively to close the widening gap.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Focus Group

VHS’s Living in the Gap report drew attention to a correlation between health inequalities and poor mental health, social isolation and loneliness. It highlighted the significant involvement of our sector […]
Psychosis, Rights and Recovery- Tackling the Health Inequalities faced by people living with Schizophrenia and Psychosis
Free Half Day Seminar organised by Support in Mind, Scottish Mental Health Research Network and The University of Edinburgh. Service users, their family members, carers, health professionals, researchers and policy-makers […]
Psychosis, Rights and Recovery- Tackling the Health Inequalities faced by people living with Schizophrenia and Psychosis
Free Half Day Seminar organised by Support in Mind, Scottish Mental Health Research Network and The University of Edinburgh. Service users, their family members, carers, health professionals, researchers and policy-makers […]
Mental Health and Wellbeing Focus Group Meeting

Monday 1st June, Edinburgh 10.30- 12.30 VHS are looking to establish a mental health and wellbeing focus group to help develop our future programme of work in this area. The […]
Mental Health and Wellbeing Focus Group Meeting

Monday 1st June, Edinburgh 10.30- 12.30 VHS are looking to establish a mental health and wellbeing focus group to help develop our future programme of work in this area. The […]
Prevention of Suicide & Self Harm
The Scottish Government’s Choose Life Strategy, published in December 2002, had a 10 year lifespan. The Scottish Government set up a working group in late 2012 to consider the future […]
Prevention of Suicide and Self harm
The Scottish Government’s Choose Life Strategy, published in December 2002, had a 10 year lifespan. The Scottish Government set up a working group in late 2012 to consider the future […]