NHS Health Scotland – Scotland’s Health Improvement Agency
CHEX is funded through NHS Health Scotland’s Community and Voluntary Sectors programme and CHEX’s work supports and links to the priorities and activities of this programme and Health Scotland more widely.
NHS Health Scotland is a Special Health Board and is the national agency for health improvement. Its four key areas of work are:
- Advancing understanding of Scotland’s health and how to improve it
- Informing health improvement policy and planning
- Increasing competence and capacity to deliver
- Improving the dissemination of evidence, learning and good practice
NHS Health Scotland publishes a quarterly newsletter All in Good Health, which can be downloaded from www.healthscotland.com or direct hard copies from publications@health.scot.nhs.co.uk.
The Community and Voluntary Sectors programme is based within the Healthy Settings Team, which also includes the programmes on Local Government, Health Promoting Health Service, Education, and ‘Looked after’ populations. Additional to working specifically to strengthen the capacity for health improvement work within the different settings / sectors, the team also jointly undertake strategic work to promote and develop intersectoral partnership working on health improvement.
The Programme Manager is Angela Jackson and the Programme Officer is Greig Stanners.
Please see the Community and Voluntary Sectors Programme https://www.healthscotland.com/topics/settings/community-voluntary.aspx and Healthy Settings Team https://www.healthscotland.com/topics/index.aspx webpages for further details about current programmes and areas of work, or contact: Greig Stanners at greig.stanners@health.scot.nhs.uk.
(last updated 17 May 2010)
