Reading Time: 7 minutesThis blog provides an overview of the Scottish Government’s incoming vaccination certification scheme, or ‘vaccine passports’.
Category: Health
Face coverings: an overview
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog provides an overview of when face coverings must be worn in Scotland and when exemptions apply.
Guest blog: Addressing vaccine hesitancy among the Polish community in Scotland
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis guest blog presents early findings from a major new University of Glasgow-led study on the impacts of COVID-19 on migrant essential workers.
Health and social care: who pays, who decides?
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe UK government recently announced plans to increase taxes to pay for health and social care in England. This blog explores the implications for Scotland.
Health and Social Care integration Part 2: Have data gaps been addressed?
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis blog will investigate localities’ health data. Localities are the smaller areas that make up the geographies of integration authorities.
Health and Social Care integration Part 1: Are Integration Authorities successfully integrating?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog will explore the progress of health and social care integration. It will evaluate this progress against the core suite of integration indicators and summarise progress since 2019.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Protection levels
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog provides a high-level summary of the protection levels and the current restrictions across Scotland.
COVID-19 – should we be concerned about high case numbers?
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog discusses the recent high number of cases of COVID-19 in Scotland and concerns about the lifting of restrictions.
Could a National Care Service work like the National Health Service?
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis blog considers the challenges of creating a national care service
Life in the pandemic for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT+) people in Scotland
Reading Time: 4 minutesA look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for LGBT+ people in Scotland