Search

Access to fair and sustainable travel has health, social, economic and environmental benefits. On World Health Day, the Chair of the Public Health and Sustainable Transport Group blogs for us on transport trends linked to the pandemic and policy responses to positively impact communities.

Read about how PHS is supporting localised working to improve health and wellbeing within local communities.

Today (13th June) we celebrate the beginning of Clinical Audit Awareness Week. Throughout the week the Scottish National Audit Programme (SNAP) will tweet about each of the individual audits within the Programme to raise awareness of their work.

Gambling is another addictive product in our society that can have a devastating effect on the most vulnerable and can widen existing inequality. In this blog, Organisational lead for Public Health Networks Ann Conacher highlights a new programme of work in PHS to address gambling harm.

The longer days of summer provide us that extra opportunity to spend time outdoors which benefits our physical and mental health. Public Health Scotland's (PHS) Director of Public Health Science, Dr Nick Phin, blogs about how to keep ourselves and each other safe while we make the most of the summer months.

Lovetta Williams, Organisational Lead for Workforce Development, encourages people working in the public service in Scotland to learn something new in 2023 that improves practice, and helps make a difference to people’s outcomes.

In this blog, Dr Claire Cameron, Consultant in Health Protection at Public Health Scotland, reflects on this year’s World Immunisation Week theme ‘The Big Catch-Up'. She also emphasises the continued importance of vaccination to ensure more people in Scotland are protected from vaccine-preventable diseases, allowing them to live happier and healthier lives.

Now that Spring has arrived, Public Health Scotland's Director of Public Health Science, Dr Nick Phin, shares some top tips on the things we can do to help keep ourselves well, particularly as we spend more time outdoors.

Today we celebrate the beginning of Clinical Audit Awareness Week. It is widely accepted that good, accurate and robust data are necessary to allow NHS Boards to make decisions based on credible evidence and fact. Our colleagues across the NHS rely on the information provided by the SNAP to make decisions about how they manage their services.

Public Health Scotland has published a rapid assessment on the health impacts of the rising cost of living. Margaret Douglas, Consultant in Public Health, discusses what this could mean for the long term health of communities in Scotland and what can be done to ease the impact.