Health and Social Care
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Equipment Services journal publishes integration article
21st January 2015 by Linda White
Isla Bisset, Policy Officer within the Integration and Reshaping Care Division at the Scottish Government, and Alison Docherty, Joint Improvement Team Action Group Lead for Equipment and Adaptations, discuss the implications of integration in this comprehensive article published in the January 2015 edition of Equipment Services. The article sets the context of integration and explores: Implementation Working...
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Spotlight on: Adam Coldwells, Chief Officer for Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership
21st January 2015 by Linda White
What were you doing before becoming Chief Officer ? I was appointed Chief Officer in January 2014. Prior to taking up this role I was General Manager for Aberdeenshire CHP and interim General Manager for Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership. It is a great challenge but one that offers huge opportunity to...
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When Friendship Disappears
6th January 2015 by Linda White
‘When friendship disappears, then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.’ (Hilaire Belloc) Befriending Networks is the umbrella body for befriending services across the country. In addition to providing a range...
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Health and Social Care Integration Policy Update – December 2014
4th December 2014 by Linda White
The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 was passed on April 1, 2014 and the Implementation Policy Team has been developing the secondary legislation since then to underpin the Act, consulting over the Summer on the Regulations and Orders and working with stakeholders to shape the legislation. Regulations and Orders The Regulations and...
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Designing education and training to deliver health and social care integration
28th November 2014 by Linda White
Everyone understands that the principles of integration underpinned by legislation alone do not guarantee the successful integration of services. Cultural change and quality leadership are also vitally important. Integrated care delivery is unlikely to happen at the necessary pace and scale unless those implementing it are provided with opportunities and support to put new, integrated...
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Spotlight on: John Walker, Chief Officer for Perth & Kinross
25th September 2014 by Linda White
What background brought you to the position of Chief Officer? I’ve worked in local government for 30 years. Although my background is originally finance, I’ve been responsible for service delivery in many areas of the Council in that time. For the last five years I was Depute Director of Housing and Community Care for Perth...
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Meal Makers – connecting local communities through food
24th September 2014 by Linda White
Meal Makers is a pilot project which was launched in Dundee on August 6 2014 to help reduce food poverty and malnutrition among older people, improve their diets and combat social isolation by helping to break down the barriers that lead to loneliness. It is a free, local neighbourhood food-sharing project that connects volunteers of...
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Integration from a Nursing Perspective
24th September 2014 by Linda White
“How important it is that we recognise and value every stakeholder’s contribution to [this] process.” RCN member RCN Scotland, supported by the Scottish Government, recently ran an event about strategic commissioning for senior nurses. After listening to the debate, a colleague from England observed that integration could, in practice, be far more radical than any...
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Local Carer Engagement: Resourcing Best Practice Coalition of Carers in Scotland, July 2014
2nd September 2014 by Linda White
As the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 comes into force with a greater move to co-producing services with carers and service users, the Coalition of Carers in Scotland has published a Carer Engagement Paper looking at local arrangements in relation to carer engagement. The key objective of the paper is to establish whether...
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Guest blog by Gail Lumsden from NHS 24 on the CIS redesign project
29th July 2014 by Eilidh Smith
My role as Partnership and Engagement Officer at NHS 24 Health Information Services is a varied one, meaning can mean one day I can be out speaking to mums at Mother and Toddler events at the local library, managing a stand at the National NHSScotland Annual conference to discussing our process and governance procedures around...
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