The Doing More for More People - The future of volunteering in our mutual NHSScotland event organised by Volunteer Development Scotland in partnership with a number of key stakeholders, will take place on 22 November at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh. The event will highlight progress made in relation to the development of the Refreshed Strategy for Volunteering in NHSScotland and will discuss a range of topics the will explore how best volunteering can contribute towards improving health and wellbeing. For example, ranging from caring for older people in their own homes/communities to exploring how volunteering could help NHSScotland deliver the Quality Strategy.
The day will comprise of lively panel debates involving the Nominated Leads for Volunteering from a selection of NHS Boards, people from public health, and those working at primary/community level. There will be input from Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health and Sport as well as a number of workshops looking at some dynamic and interesting ways in which volunteering is helping to make Scotland a healthier country.
Early signs indicate that the event will be extremely popular with over 100 people having already registered interest to date.
Details of the event programme can be downloaded
here.
If you have any comments regarding this event, require further information or would like to register your interest in attending then please e-mail your response to Pamela Allan at
Pamela.Allan@vds.org.uk.