Health and Social Care
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Go for gold! Introducing our healthcare framework
17th February 2022 by Kirstin Millar
An introduction to a new healthcare framework for adults and older people living in care homes. This will set out what healthcare should be available for people living in care homes, how we can enable this and a plan of how this will be implemented. On this first post, we have a spotlight on Perth and Kinross' Go4Gold Care Home Games Challenge event.
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Wellbeing Hub for people living with MS
24th January 2022 by Morna Simpkins - Chief Executive, MS Society Scotland
MS Society Scotland Chief Executive, Morna Simpkins, writes about the organisation's pan-Scotland person centred virtual ‘Wellbeing Hub’.
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NHS Tayside Breakthrough Series Collaborative
21st January 2022 by Derek Tasker - Programme Manager, NHS Tayside
NHS Tayside Programme Manager, Derek Tasker reflects on progress and learning.
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Leading the development of the data strategy with positivity and ambition
14th January 2022 by Zoe Rohde - Communications and Content Manager
Colin Birchenall, Chair of the Working Group and Chief Technology Officer of the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government shares his views and ambitions for the development of the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care.
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Our vision for the health and care data strategy
20th December 2021 by Zoe Rohde - Communications and Content Manager
Blog by Ryan Anderson (Policy Lead for Data Intelligence) This month Colin Birchenall, as the Chair of the Digital Health and Care Data Strategy Working Group, presented an update on the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care to the Health and Social Care Strategic Portfolio Board on the 8th December 2021. For those who...
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Reflections on Data at DigiFest 2021
7th December 2021 by Zoe Rohde - Communications and Content Manager
Imme Jones is Policy Lead for Data Strategy and Data-Driven Innovation in the Digital Health and Care Directorate. Last week I attended Digital Health and Care Festival 2021 (#Digifest21). The event was entirely virtual following the success of last year and taking into account the circumstances of the pandemic. It was a packed couple of...
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Data strategy for health and social care
16th November 2021 by Digital Health and Care Team
The recently published digital health and care strategy commits to the development of Scotland’s first ever dedicated Data Strategy. We caught up with the Interim Director for Digital Health and Social Care, Jonathan Cameron, to find out more about his thoughts and aspirations for the upcoming Data Strategy.
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Support for Hospital at Home Services
2nd March 2020 by Isla Bisset
£1 million funding has been made available in the Scottish Budget to support the development of Hospital at Home services (read full news release here). Hospital at Home is a different way of working where acute hospital care is provided in a person’s own home as an alternative to traditional hospital admission. The service can...
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Supporting National Power of Attorney Day
19th November 2019 by Isla Bisset
We’re are supporting National Power of Attorney Awareness Day, which falls on 20 November 2019. National Power of Attorney Awareness Day provides a perfect opportunity to encourage everyone to obtain a power of attorney (PoA) and help them plan properly for the future. A power of attorney is a legal document that gives another person,...
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Housing Solutions Change Programme: Training modules evaluation report
1st November 2019 by Isla Bisset
Following on from the Scottish Government’s Adapting for Change improvement programme Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Improvement Hub (iHub) commissioned the development of the Housing Solutions change programme,. The programme aimed to embed learning, and ensure practitioners involved in the housing adaptations process had the skills they need to help people make informed decisions about their homes....