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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.

Minimising the risks from bird flu (avian influenza) If you’ve been walking along Scotland’s coastlines recently, particularly in the north and east, you might have seen a number of dead birds on the beaches.

Cases of STIs are rising in sexually active adults in Scotland. In this blog, Dr Kirsty Roy emphasises the importance of having safer sex.

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.

This Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, Dr Megan Watson, Public Health Intelligence Adviser at PHS shares her reflections on the impact the pandemic has had on the mental health and wellbeing of families across Scotland.

Scotland has a vision where suicide is preventable; where help and support is available to anyone contemplating suicide and to those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Shirley Windsor, Organisational Lead for Public Mental Health, reflects on the wide range of work PHS has been involved in and how it will continue with the launch of the new strategy and action plan.

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.

Rose Vickridge introduces the new easy read version of Ready Steady Baby, and explains how parents with lived experience were at the centre of developing it.

Dr Richmond Davies, Head of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, talks to us about the new PHS trajectory tool help NHS Boards estimate the level of capacity needed to meet the demand for Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ND) assessments in children, young people and adults.

This Green Health Week, Professor Dominic Mellor, Consultant in Veterinary Public Health at Public Health Scotland, discusses the importance of being bug and germ aware while exploring the outdoors.