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Sam Whitmore from our Place Standard Tool team talks about the new Climate Lens resource due to complete in spring 2022 to help protect health and combat climate change.

Health and Housing Manager Katrina Reid blogs to demonstrate PHS support for Housing to 2040, Scotland’s first ever long-term national housing strategy and route map to upholding the right to housing for everyone.

This resource tells you what diabetic eye screening is and why it's important to get screened if you suffer from diabetes.

With cases of Tuberculosis (TB) increasing in Scotland, Hazel Henderson, Consultant in Public Health and Lead of the Respiratory Bacterial Pathogens team at PHS, has written in our latest blog about the importance of surveillance in understanding and beating this persistent, curable and preventable disease.

Viruses change over time and that means our public health response does too, which includes our vaccination programmes. Consultant in Public Health from our Vaccination and Immunisation Division Dr Daniel Chandler outlines changes to this year’s COVID-19 vaccination programme in our latest blog.

Alison Owens, Health Improvement Manager, discusses Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) engagement with the community food sector and the opportunities involving them in local decision-making brings —in particular in the development of Good Food Nation plans.

This week sees the annual crossover of Mental Health Awareness Week and Green Health Week. Ruairi O’Brien, Health Improvement Officer in the Public Mental Health Team, presents a view on the links between the two.

It’s World Immunisation Week (24 - 30 April) and we’re celebrating another year of one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Over the last 50 years, essential vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives globally.

In this joint blog, two of our Consultants in Public Health Medicine, Professor David Morrison, Director of the Scottish Cancer Registry and Dr Fatim Lakha, explore the seemingly paradoxical good news within Scotland’s rising cancer statistics – and what it means for our future health and care system.

As a data and intelligence led organisation, Public Health Scotland (PHS) is committed to providing timely, relevant, and high-quality data to support public understanding of NHS performance. Today, our Director of Data and Digital Innovation and Head of Profession for Statistics, Scott Heald, talks through a major development in how we report waiting times for NHS Scotland.