ALLIANCE responds to Public Health Scotland strategy consultation
- Area of Work: Policy and Research
- Type: News Item
- Published: 28th August 2025
Public Health Scotland is consulting on its new 10-year strategy.
The ALLIANCE welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Public Health Scotland (PHS) consultation to help shape its strategy and the future of Scotland’s health.
PHS is a member and long-standing partner of the ALLIANCE, and we believe there are numerous opportunities for continued collaboration to develop and deliver the strategy and achieve our shared ambitions.
As well as opportunities, our response highlights some of the challenges to preventing health inequalities and increasing healthy life expectancy, and for much-needed system change more broadly.
We highlight several ways that the ALLIANCE and our members can work with PHS, and offer some recommendations for their new strategy, including:
- Ensuring clear use of terminology and definitions of, for example, ‘population health’, and ‘prevention’.
- Explicitly referencing human rights, digital, and unpaid care.
- Directly addressing the ‘hard to do’ things that can hinder implementation.
- Championing and investing in the third sector.
You can read our consultation response in the resource section below.
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