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Major partnership launched to reduce NHS pressures and improve lung disease care

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland is delighted to announce over £300,000 worth of funding to support partnership projects with Health Boards across Scotland to reduce NHS pressures and improve lung...

Number of Scots living with long-term effects of Long Covid more than doubles in 6 months

New estimates from the Office of National Statistics show that the number of people living with Long Covid for more than 12 months has reached 64,000 – more than double...

Number of Scots living with Long Covid reaches record high

The latest statistics released today show that more people than ever before are living with the effects of Long Covid in Scotland. New estimates from the Office of National Statistics...

25% Increase in Scots Living with Long COVID for over a Year

An estimated 50,000 people living with Long Covid in Scotland have been affected by their symptoms for more than 12 months – up 25% (10,000) from last month 21% of...

John Hartson Latest Signing for Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland West Highland Way Team

Champion Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland fundraiser, Chris Mullen, has unveiled a star signing joining his team to take on his latest fundraising challenge. Former Celtic striker John Hartson had...

Increase in Scots living with long term effects of Long Covid

Dr Amy Small has been living with Long Covid since April 2020. _ New estimates from the Office of National Statistics show that more Scots than ever before (40,000) have...

New NHS Figures Show "Dangerous Domino Effect" of Pandemic on Progress Made With Strokes and Heart Disease

First year of the pandemic sees highest number of strokes in a decade, hospital activity down and deaths on the rise in Scotland New annual reports on heart disease and...

New Data Estimates Long Covid Hits Scots Harder Than UK Average

25% of people living with Long Covid in Scotland say their daily lives have been ‘affected a lot’ – compared with UK average of 19% Almost two years after start...

Win a night at a luxury glamping pod and raise cash for charity!

Fancy a romantic night for two in the ultimate glamping pod on a secluded Perthshire estate far from the madding Christmas crowds? Well, it could be yours thanks to the...

Thousands raised in memory of charity shop volunteer

Christine Smith, 69, was a volunteer in the Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland boutique in Erskine for two years. After her sudden death from a stroke, her family set up...