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Lovetta Williams, Organisational Lead for Workforce Development, encourages people working in the public service in Scotland to learn something new in 2023 that improves practice, and helps make a difference to people’s outcomes.

PHS Director of Public Health Science, Nick Phin, shares some hints and tips on how best to look after ourselves over the festive season.

In this guest blog, Elaine Caldow, Public Health Programme Lead at NHS Ayrshire and Arran and member of the Environment and Spaces for Public Health Partnership Group, discusses how our homes are central to health and wellbeing, and why it is important to look at how people living in different housing tenures used greenspace during the pandemic.

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.

Dr Richmond Davies, Head of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, tells us about the new PHS Trajectory Tool to support the delivery of quality mental health services and shares NHS Board testimonials.

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, 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.

In a new partnership campaign, PHS has joined with SAMH and Sportscotland to encourage people to ‘Feel Your Personal Best’ by making small changes to improve physical and mental health. In this blog, PHS staff Manira Ahmad and Flora Jackson view the campaign through a public health lens and share their personal experiences of the recent launch event.

The PHS repository of COVID-19 research launched on 17 March 2021, bringing together research from PHS and Scotland’s Higher Education Institutions into a single, searchable platform. Julia Green, Knowledge Services Manager at PHS, discusses the next steps for this resource, and how it can add value as we move towards COVID-19 recovery.

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.