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  • Green Matters: The Interplay between Mental Health and Green Health

    • 15 May 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Mental health

    This week sees the annual crossover of Mental Health Awareness Week and Green Health Week. Ruairi O’Brien, Health Improvement Officer in the Public Mental Health Team, presents a view on the links between the two.

  • Changing the narrative around suicide

    • 10 September 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Suicide

    Our latest blog from Jenny Smith, Health Improvement Manager and Suicide Prevention Implementation Lead, marks World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 and focuses on changing the narrative around suicide.

  • PHS welcomes Cllr Nairn McDonald as a new member of its Board

    • 25 July 2024
    • News stories
    • Corporate information

    PHS welcomes Cllr Nairn McDonald as a new member of its Board, an appointment jointly sponsored by Scottish Government and COSLA.

  • 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.

  • 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...
  • 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.

  • Taking a public health approach to homelessness prevention

    • 25 April 2024
    • Blog posts
    • Place

    Guest blog contributor and Chief Executive of the Cyrenians homeless charity, Ewan Aitken, tells us about the current housing crisis in Scotland and how taking a public health approach can be part of the solution

  • Items on short supply

    • 06 June 2024
    • Content pages
    • Pharmacy and prescribing

    Part 13 - items in respect of which endorsements on the grounds of short supply are permitted for the stated month