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In our latest blog, Paul Johnston, PHS Chief Executive, reflects on the recent trends in Scotland's life expectancy data, and the work taking place through the Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland (CHES) to increase life expectancy and reduce health inequalities.

As a data and intelligence led organisation, Public Health Scotland (PHS) is committed to providing timely, relevant, and high-quality data to support public understanding of NHS performance. Today, our Director of Data and Digital Innovation and Head of Profession for Statistics, Scott Heald, talks through a major development in how we report waiting times for NHS Scotland.

With the start of the winter approaching, the Viral Respiratory team at Public Health Scotland (PHS) is gearing up their surveillance of respiratory infections. In our latest blog,...

In this blog post, the PHS COVID-19 Data Teams explain why we are changing how we present information on the virus, including the statistics on COVID-19 hospital admissions.

The PHS repository of COVID-19 research launched on 17 March 2021, bringing together research from PHS and Scotland’s Higher Education Institutions into a single, searchable platform. Julia Green, Knowledge Services Manager at PHS, discusses the next steps for this resource, and how it can add value as we move towards COVID-19 recovery.

In this blog post, Vicki Craik, Public Health Intelligence Adviser and lead of the RADAR early warning drugs surveillance system at Public Health Scotland, explains how the programme works, the impact it seeks to have and how to get involved to make a difference.

In 2020 we made a film to show how children & young people believe that good relationships are key to their mental wellbeing. After almost two school years during the pandemic, Carly Grant explains why relationships have never been more important.

Dr Richmond Davies, Head of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, tells us about the new PHS Trajectory Tool to support the delivery of quality mental health services and shares NHS Board testimonials.

Our latest blog focuses on the new online public health learning hub and how it can help all of us to easily answer the question of what public health is.

COVID-19 has focused our minds on how life-giving vaccines can be. In our latest blog, read how vaccination has been preventing severe illness and death from a range of diseases for a long time, and continues to improve quality of life.