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  • Sustainable innovations: Reducing plastic waste in the NHS

    • 22 April 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Environmental health
    • Place

    Tanya Rhodes (PHS) and Mairead Gardner (NSS/Sustainability Action) speak to Dietitian, Rosa Holt, and Waste Manager, Neil Duncan at NHS Grampian about a simple but innovative project to reduce plastic waste.

  • The importance of Place-based working

    • 18 January 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Place

    A Scotland where we live in vibrant, healthy and safe places and communities is one of the six public health priorities for Scotland. Health Improvement Officer, Michelle McCormack, discusses the work Public Health Scotland (PHS) is doing with the Improvement Service (IS) to deliver the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme across seven towns in Scotland.

  • Staying well this Spring

    • 22 May 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Population health

    In this blog, Public Health Scotland's (PHS) Director of Public Health Science, Dr Nick Phin, shares some top tips to help you stay safe and well this spring.

  • Life, work and mental health

    • 10 October 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Mental health
    This World Mental Health Day 2024 Graeme Stevenson, Senior Health Improvement Officer - Public Mental Health and Mel Bridgewood, Health Improvement Manager - Fair Work and...
  • Transport Poverty: A Public Health Issue, One Year On

    • 08 October 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Poverty

    Transport Poverty is one area that is being highlighted during Challenge Poverty Week as the key theme for today. It has serious health and social implications, limiting people's ability to meet daily needs and enjoy a good quality of life.

  • Why the housing crisis is also a public health emergency

    • 23 April 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Place

    In our latest blog, Emma Doyle, Organisational Lead for Housing and Homelessness at Public Health Scotland, discusses the current of a lack of affordable housing and it's impact on the  levels of people experiencing homelessness in Scotland.

  • Scotland’s Climate Week: Public Health Scotland’s Story for Change

    • 23 September 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Place

    Scotland’s Climate Week 2024 is appropriately themed Stories for Change, and it’s given us a great opportunity to take stock of where we have come since launching our Climate Change and Sustainability Strategic Approach 2023-2026.

  • A Scotland where everyone thrives

    • 25 September 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Corporate information

    Paul Johnston, Chief Executive of Public Health Scotland explains why a recent journey was the inspiration for his keynote speech at Scotland’s Health: The State of the Nation event on Tuesday 17 September at Dynamic Earth.

  • Supporting stakeholders' work to turn the tide on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children

    • 19 August 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)

    Following publication of our last round of the COVID-19 Early Years Resilience and Impact Survey (CEYRIS), partners provided their reflections on the results and how the evidence is supporting and shaping their own work.

  • Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry Health and Social Care Impact Hearing

    • 31 July 2024
    • News stories
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)

    The Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry impact hearings on Health and Social Care concluded on 25 June 2024.