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PHS Board papers for 18 May 2022.

These resources are provided to help you promote the flu and COVID-19 vaccinations programme to frontline healthcare worker staff.

These resources are provided to help you promote the flu and COVID-19 vaccination programme to frontline care home and social care staff.

Academic research papers produced in collaboration with Macmillan Cancer Support

Social media assets and suggested captions to help spread our message about mpox (monkeypox) and the vaccine which helps to reduce transmission.

CARDRISS is the Congenital Conditions and Rare Diseases Registration & Information Service for Scotland. This leaflet and poster explain more about the CARDRISS service.

PHS Board papers for 7 September 2022.

Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) came into effect in May 2018, setting a minimum price of 50 pence per unit of alcohol sold in Scotland. Public Health Scotland is conducting a comprehensive, independent evaluation of the evidence of the effects of MUP. Minimum Unit Pricing is an intervention with a complex range of potential effects, and a complex range of factors that may moderate those effects. This protocol describes how we are synthesising the evidence about the effects of MUP. The protocol sets out the context of the evaluation, justifies the methods used and sets out the steps involved.

Our briefing paper outlines housing strategies and plans that local authorities produce. It highlights opportunities for health professionals to engage with these plans and strategies. This is to maximise the contribution these plan and strategy documents can make to good health and reducing health inequalities. Please note this publication is branded as NHS Health Scotland and may be out dated. It is now managed by Public Health Scotland.