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Apr 19

Cross Party Group on Improving Scotland’s Health: 2021 and Beyond

Alison Douglas, Chief Executive Alcohol Focus Scotland Interested in reducing the impact of unhealthy commodities on cancer a d health? Then you may be interested in the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group (CPG) on Improving Scotland’s Health: 2021 and Beyond. As the name suggests, the Group brings together Members of the ...

Jan 19

Building momentum: lessons on implementing a robust sugar sweetened beverage tax

By Bryony Sinclair, World Cancer Research Fund International Sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes get a lot of media coverage. This is in part because they are building momentum globally – to date, 45 jurisdictions around the world have implemented an SSB tax and 42% of these have been put in place since 1 January 2017 – […]

Jul 18

What’s the latest from the Cross Party Group on Cancer?

By Kirsty Slack, Public Affairs Manager (Scotland), Cancer Research UK September 2018 will mark the halfway point of the Scottish Government’s five year cancer strategy. With this in mind, the Cross Party Group (CPG) on Cancer is currently holding an inquiry into the strategy to assess and report on the progress that has ...

Apr 18

Scottish Government: Preventative Agenda

Sounds promising …. a prevention agenda for change! The SCPN were delighted to be invited to provide evidence to the Scottish Government Health and Sport Committee on this very topic which is a major part of their current business (“To seek evidence on and analyse preventative spend through a series of short inquiries on ...

Apr 18

Food poverty impacts on food choices and cancer risk

In Scotland, community food organisations are working on a range of projects way beyond food banks. Research on understanding how communities might aid dignity and well being is long overdue. This recent report gives useful insight to ways forward.

Oct 17

Reflections on ‘gender neutral’ HPV immunisation

Prof Heather Cubie MBE, Consultant Clinical Scientist, University of Edinburgh In the UK we have two very effective interventions to make cervical cancer a disease of history – a national cervical screening programme for women > 25 and, since 2008, school-based HPV vaccine for girls aged 12-13. The UK has the highest ...

Nov 16

Workplace health can change! The story of tobacco control

By Shelia Duffy, Chief Executive at ASH Scotland This year, Scotland celebrated a decade of smoke-free enclosed public spaces. To borrow a thought from Virginia Slims, we’ve come a long way, baby. And we’re now quite a long way from the widespread normality and visibility of smoking in past decades, where physicians ...

Jul 16

Would collaboration create an advantage in tackling obesity?

Lorraine Tulloch, Programme Lead – Obesity Action Scotland, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow This is the question we posed at a meeting of interested parties in April. Attendees included academics and obesity researchers, charities such as British Heart Foundation and Diabetes Scotland, NHS, NHS Health ...

Jul 16

Prevention still needs to prove its value

Some reflections by Dr Andrew Fraser, NHS Health Scotland We have perhaps forgotten the first democratic jolt of the year, in May – the Scottish Elections. The language of prevention grew stronger then, while we face squeezed budgets, using every pound wisely and effectively. There is no doubt that prevention in a general sense is ...

Apr 16

Editorial: Alcohol Guidelines and Breast Cancer Prevention

Professor Annie S. Anderson (@anniescotta) Professor Bob Steele (@BobSteele6) The new alcohol guidelines [1] published in a consultation document earlier in the year are baffling. For a start they provide a very clear message that “the risk of a range of cancers, especially breast cancer, increases directly in line with ...

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