Health Inequalities

Purpose of the group

The group aims to raise awareness of the causes of health inequalities amongst parliamentarians to influence legislation and amongst policy makers to promote evidence based actions which reduce health inequalities and to avoid legislation and policies which will make health inequalities in Scotland worse. 

Forthcoming meetings

Next meeting:

Agendas/Links

• Agenda for Meeting 25 October 2016 (130KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 19 January 2017 (130KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 30 March 2017 (23KB pdf) 
• Agenda for Meeting 15 June 2017 (79KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 26 October 2017 (150KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 7 December 2017 (213KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 25 January 2018 (277KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 3 May 2018 (123KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 30 October 2018 (165KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 31 January 2019 (24KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 30 April 2019 (126KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 18 June 2019 (106KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 1 October 2019 (391KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 21 January 2020 (340KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 14 May 2020 (126KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 13 October 2020 (461KB pdf)
• Agenda for Meeting 26 January 2021 (329KB pdf)

Minutes

• Minutes of Meeting 25 October 2016 (50KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 19 January 2017 (47KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 30 March 2017 (170KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 15 June 2017 (246KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 26 October 2017 (329KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 7 December 2017 (260KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 3 May 2018 (223KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 30 October 2018 (730KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 31 January 2019 (149KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 30 April 2019 (339KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 18 June 2019 (97KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 1 October 2019 (338KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 21 January 2020 (427KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 13 October 2020 (336KB pdf)
• Minutes of Meeting 26 January 2021 (415KB pdf)

Annual Return/Report

• Registration form (107KB pdf)
• Annual return form 2017 (230KB pdf) 
• Annual return form 2018 (398KB pdf)
• Annual return form 2019 (400KB pdf)
• Annual return form 2020 (158KB pdf)

Group Officers

Group Members

Non MSP Individuals

Organisations

Voluntary Health Scotland – Secretary 

Age Scotland  

Alcohol Focus Scotland  

ASH Scotland 

Audit Scotland 

AvoCard 

Befriending Networks  

Big Lottery Fund 

Breast Cancer Now 

British Dental Association Scotland  

British Dietetic Association (BDA)  

British Medical Association 

British Liver Trust 

British Lung Foundation 

British Red Cross 

Cancer Research UK 

Cancer Support Scotland  

Care Inspectorate 

Centre for Health Policy, University of Strathclyde 

Changeworks 

Changing Faces 

Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland 

Children’s Hospices Across Scotland: CHAS  

Church of Scotland  

Community Leisure UK 

Community Pharmacy Scotland 

Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Forum (CJVSF) 

Culture Counts  

Cycling Scotland  

deafscotland 

Deaf Links Tayside 

Energy Action Scotland 

Energy Savings Trust  

Eden Project Communities 

Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity 

Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership  

Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council (EVOC) 

Family Fund Scotland  

Genetic Alliance 

Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (The ALLIANCE)  

HIV Scotland  

Improvement Service 

Inspiring Scotland  

Ingeus 

LGBT Health and Wellbeing 

Macmillan Cancer Support 

Margaret Blackwood Housing Association  

Salvesen Mindroom Centre  

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow 

Nourish Scotland  

NSPCC 

Pasda 

Paths for All 

Positive Steps 

Public Health Scotland 

Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland  

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) 

Rowan Alba 

Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland 

Royal College of Midwives 

Royal College of Nursing  

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 

Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB) Scotland  

Royal Pharmaceutical Society 

Samaritans 

Scotland Versus Arthritis 

Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs 

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) 

Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance 

Scottish Men's Sheds Association 

Scottish Obesity Alliance 

Scottish Rural Health Partnership 

Seescape 

Senscot  

Saheliya 

Shelter Scotland 

St Andrew’s First Aid  

Streetworks 

Stroke Association  

Terrence Higgins Trust  

The Global Health Policy Unit, University of Edinburgh  

The Health Agency  

The Open University 

The People's Health Movement Scotland 

Viewpoint 

VOX Scotland Voices of Experience 

Waverley Care