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Year	Date	Title	Summary	File size
2010	February 5	Voluntary Health Scotland: Stakeholder Survey - Summary	This document provides a summary of the stakeholder survey VHS carried out during September 2009 of its members and stakeholders.	18kb
2010	February 5	Voluntary Health Scotland: Stakeholder Survey	This survey of VHS members and stakeholders has allowed VHS to gauge its reach, satisfaction with its services and priorities for future direction. VHS has a good reach in the voluntary sector, but could reach more key people in the statutory sector The NHS is most aware of VHS and the sector where it has statutory obligations - public involvement, volunteering Take-up of VHS services is higher within the voluntary sector Most VHS services were rated excellent or very good by at least 50% of respondents There is some divergence of priorities for the future, with the voluntary sector wishing to see VHS pursue a greater role for the sector through advocacy, policy analysis and research VHS has now identified ten actions to improve the reach and quality of its services and clarify where its strengths are best directed in future.	220kb
2010	January 25	Voluntary Health Scotland Annual Report 2008 - 2009		864kb
2009	December 24	Briefing - Winter 2009 / 2010	Winter 2009 / 2010 issue of regular Briefing newsletter	374kb
2009	November 19	Tackling Health Inequalities in Scotland: working with communities - a partnership of Scottish Intermediary Bodies	CHEX, Voluntary Health Scotland, Community Food and Health Scotland and UKPHA jointly produced this report which highlights their collaborative work, together with their distinctive role and remits and explains how each organisations brings its own strengths and special contribution to supporting health improvement in Scotland.	542kb
2009	October 30	Briefing - Autumn 2009	Autumn 2009 issue of regular Briefing newsletter	238kb
2009	September 9	Better Health Connections: Health improvement through local intermediaries	Report on the conference hosted by Voluntary Health Scotland and the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations	401kb
2009	June 29	Briefing - Summer 2009	Summer 2009 issue of regular Briefing newsletter	293kb
2009	May 25	Improving CHP engagement with the third sector: A survey of CHP General Managers by Voluntary Health Scotland	This is the report of the survey of CHP General Managers into ways to improve CHP engagement with the third sector which was carried out by Voluntary Health Scotland at the end of 2008.	347kb
2009	May 25	The role of the third sector in health improvement within Community Health Partnerships: a sector perspective	This enquiry seeks to clarify the planning and delivery contribution of the third sector to health improvement within CHPs and articulate the unique value brought to health improvement by the sector. In doing so, this paper also seeks to review the progress of CHPs in taking forward an integrative approach to health improvement, offer suggestions for good practice and identify action points to enable CHPs and the third sector working within them to improve their ability to deliver the health improvement services crucial for maintaining the health of the nation.	294kb