Health Promoting Health Service
This website is for anyone who is interested in learning more about improving health for NHS employees, patients and visitors.
The Health Promoting Health Service (HPHS) aims to support development and embed effective practice for health improvement within the NHS in Scotland. Whether you work within an acute or a community setting, the ethos and framework of the HPHS supports the aims of the 'Better Health, Better Care: Action Plan' (The Scottish Government, 2007) and is relevant to what you do or aspire to do within your service area.
The programme provides tools and resources to make it easier for anyone with an interest in health improvement to develop, deliver and evaluate initiatives that make a difference.
HPHS Case Studies provide insight into successful initiatives both ongoing and recently completed.
The HPHS Framework focuses health improvement activity by ensuring that key elements are considered and systems are in place to support positive change.
The booklet HPHS: An Introduction provides some context to the framework and how to approach planning for health improvement activities.
The Scottish HPHS Network is part of a wider World Health Organisation (WHO) Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Project and Network, incorporating national networks from most European countries. The World Health Organisation established the international Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services to reorient health care institutions to emphasise health improvement.
The World Health Organisation’s Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services project (external link) is based on the Vienna Recommendations on Health Promoting Hospitals (1997) (external link) which build upon the general principles of the Budapest Declaration on Health Promoting Hospitals (1991) (external link)
For Scotland, the HPHS Framework addresses the principles of the World Health Organisation’s Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Service project. The HPHS Framework aligns to the World Health Organisation’s Standards for Health Promotion in Hospitals (external link).
HPHS Presentation
Health Scotland have developed a Health Promoting Health Service Presentation to assist health professionals when delivering training on the HPHS approach.