'Despite fiscal challenges, funding can and must be reshaped to support a different approach to the delivery of hard-pressed public services.' Chris Creegan, Director of the Improving Health and Reducing Inequalities in Scotland Programme
Scotland's Population Health Framework recognises that improving health and addressing worsening inequalities requires action beyond health and care services.
@chriscreegan.bsky.social argues that a focus on prevention will determine if Scotland can reverse the tide ⬇️
https://bit.ly/46NDZgO
21.07.2025 09:15 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The health mandate: The voters' verdict on government intervention | IPPR
The NHS ranks just behind the cost of living as the second most pressing issue facing the country, but this concern goes beyond access to treatment. Voters
New IPPR (UK nationally representative) poll + focus groups 'shows that a clear public mandate exists for action on the structural drivers of health [which] cuts across traditional political lines' www.ippr.org/articles/the... Hope to see this reflected in 2026 Scottish election manifestos
25.04.2025 15:02 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Great session today at the lovely Aberdeen Art Gallery with my colleague Jamal Hassan. A good start to our work with young parents to co-design a new employability service. Looking forward to returning next month.
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A graphic to promote Caring Scotland, a listening project aiming to share stories about the lives of care experienced people in Scotland. It states, for more details email caring.scotland@nationaltheatrescotland.com.
Are you care experienced and want to share a story or know someone who is? Caring Scotland is a new listening project the National Theatre of Scotland is working on. Find out more: buff.ly/44ftX4c
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Supporting Directors of Public Health (DsPH) across the UK to promote and protect good health and wellbeing, prevent ill-health and reduce inequalities.
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
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We work nationally and in local neighbourhoods to build stronger communities where there is no one left out.
We provide outdoor learning opportunities in Falkirk and Stirling.
Www.underthetrees.co.uk
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Providing leadership and advocacy on preventing and reducing #obesity and overweight in #Scotland. Reposts are not endorsements
Co-designing and delivering people-centred community regeneration in Stirling. We focus on employability, training, digital inclusion, volunteering, intergenerational connections, and family support—empowering communities to create change.
Securing a kinder, more compassionate health system and world. empathyandcompassion.ucsd.edu #MedSky #Neuroskyence
Sacro provides person-centred, trauma-informed services that support people involved with the justice system in Scotland. Sacro’s mission is to deliver life-changing services that empower people, give hope and protection, and help to build safe communities
CEO @scottishcare - homecare & care homes. Human rights at heart of care. Chair #Bereavement Charter Group, #candleforcare @ Tues 7pm. #IsMiseGàidhlig.
We grow and scale the boldest and best innovations that deliver long-term impact for people across the UK.
NCB is a leading charity driving change across society so all children can thrive. The #NCBFamily is #UnitedForABetterChildhood.
ncb.org.uk
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We support professionals with their learning to enable people to live good lives.
Part of the @ncb.org.uk family.
https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/
Professor of Public Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Co-Director of the Centre for Health Policy & Co-Lead of SHERU (the Scottish Health Equity Research Unit). Interested in research, advocacy and policy to reduce inequalities.
We are a network of academics, researchers, community orgs and practitioners using creativity and the arts to co-create research that makes a difference to people’s lives. Based in @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. Find out more: https://binks-hub.ed.ac.uk
Using data responsibly to improve outcomes for every child.
Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
Edinburgh Neuroscience is a diverse community of world-class researchers in neuroscience, psychology & clinical psychology at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.edinburghneuroscience.ed.ac.uk/
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
