Reading Time: 13 minutes Information about how dental services work in Scotland and some of the issues currently facing NHS dental services.

Reading Time: 13 minutes Information about how dental services work in Scotland and some of the issues currently facing NHS dental services.
Reading Time: 69 minutes This timeline provides information on Scotland’s response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and includes all major developments.
Reading Time: 6 minutes SPICe first published a blog on long COVID, Long COVID in June 2021. Since then, the numbers of people in Scotland reporting having long COVID has increased from 79,000 to 175,000, This blog provides the answers to some frequently asked questions on long COVID.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A summary of the findings (and limitations) of the Scottish Health Survey 2021 relating to gambling harms.
Reading Time: 5 minutes An introduction to gambling harms and public health in Scotland.
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at the issue of dampness in social housing in Scotland.
Reading Time: 4 minutes This guest blog summarises the findings from an expert review for the Scottish Government Coronavirus (COVID-19) Learning and Evaluation Oversight Group. The study was led
Reading Time: 13 minutes The concept of “co-design” has been prominent in Stage 1 scrutiny of the National Care Service. This blog discusses the co-design approach, using the NCS as an example.
Reading Time: 2 minutes A hub for all SPICe material on the National Care Service (NCS)
Reading Time: 6 minutes There have been various attempts over the last two decades to change the law to permit assisted dying in Scotland, and other parts of the UK. This blog will consider previous legislative attempts in Scotland and explore some of the issues that have made it difficult to legislate in this area in the past