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  • Chair welcomes reappointment of members to Public Health’s Board

    • 28 September 2023
    • News stories
    • Corporate information

    Steven Barron, Jane-Claire Judson, Rak Nandwani and Liz Humphreys have been reappointed as Members of the Public Health Scotland (PHS) Board.

  • A Scotland where everybody thrives: Public Health Scotland’s three year strategy to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of people in Scotland

    • 29 September 2020
    • News stories
    • Corporate information

    Public Health Scotland has launched its first strategic plan.

  • How Housing Officers support tenants affected by trauma

    • 27 October 2020
    • News stories
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
    • Place

    Representatives from across Scotland’s housing sector will join a virtual webinar, hosted by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA), on the impact of childhood adverse experiences (ACEs) and trauma within the housing sector on 28th October.

  • Adverse event: shingles and pneumococcal vaccination programmes – no harm to patients

    • 21 October 2022
    • News stories
    • Immunisations

    Following the discovery of a data coding issue which led to a number of people across Scotland being mistakenly invited for a shingles or pneumococcal vaccine, Public Health Scotland (PHS) has been leading the response.

  • Data on Group A strep in Scotland

    • 14 December 2022
    • News stories
    • Children
    • Conditions and diseases
    • Health protection

    The data published today show that PHS has received reports of six new IGAS cases between 5 and 11 December across all age groups in Scotland, with no new reports in children under 10 years since last week’s report. Although increases in GAS have been reported in recent weeks in Scotland, the more serious Invasive GAS (IGAS) infections remain stable and similar to previous years.

  • Vaccine uptake among children

    • 27 June 2023
    • News stories
    • Children
    • Immunisations

    Public Health Scotland has published the latest childhood immunisation report describing the uptake rates for children in Scotland to the end of March 2023.

  • Health protection update

    • 31 March 2020
    • News stories
    • Corporate information

    The work undertaken by Health Protection Scotland continues within Public Health Scotland with no break in service as a result of the move.

  • PHS supports global gender-based violence campaign

    • 25 November 2022
    • News stories
    • Gender based violence
    Public Health Scotland (PHS) is supporting the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign which launches today. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a major...
  • 2021/22 Scottish Multiple Sclerosis Register Report published

    • 19 July 2022
    • News stories
    • Conditions and diseases

    The main findings of this year’s Scottish Multiple Sclerosis Register (SMSR) report are that 578 new patients diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) were added to the Register and despite the challenges of the pandemic, the proportion of newly-diagnosed people in contact with an MS specialist nurse within 10 working days of diagnosis increased to 88. 2%.

  • Chlamydia infection in Scotland 2013-2022 report

    • 27 June 2023
    • News stories
    • Conditions and diseases
    • Health protection
    • Sexual health

    Public Health Scotland has published a report describing chlamydia trachomatis infection, the most common sexually transmitted infection in Scotland. The report covers the period 2013-2022.