Health and Social Care

  • The Keys to Life: Scotland’s Learning Disabilities Strategy

    1st July 2015 by

    On the 18 June 2015, the Scottish Parliament hosted “Fairer Scotland – Celebrating the talent of people with learning disabilities in Scotland”. The event, highlighted  performances from the creative arts across Scotland, including “The Fridays”, a music group from Hazelwood School in Glasgow; Indepen-dance, and also artists from “Project Ability”. At the event, Jamie Hepburn, Minister...

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  • Communications Focus: Lanarkshire

    30th June 2015 by

    A Proactive, Targeted and Innovative Approach to Communications in Lanarkshire What does a Johnny Cash tribute act, a rapid response team taking hospital-level care to people’s own homes and a 94-year-old adventurer have in common? They’re all part of recent integration communications in the vibrant North and South Lanarkshire partnerships. A major tranche of our...

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  • Communications Focus: Fife

    30th June 2015 by

    No place like home… The call came in the summer of 2012. “It’s going to be huge”, our director said. “It will be the biggest change in public service for over a generation. We need to get people involved.” “Who?” we said. “We’re not sure yet, but probably everyone” he replied. And that was it....

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  • Chief Officers Spotlight: Julie White

    26th June 2015 by

    These are exciting times in Dumfries and Galloway! Not only are we in the process of integrating our Health and Social Care services but we are also building a new, state of the art District General Hospital and embarking upon a huge clinical change programme to enable us to deliver a sustainable model of health...

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  • New Online Information Resource for Carers

    16th June 2015 by

    We are delighted to announce that the re-designed Care Information Scotland service is now available. We worked closely with NHS 24 and key stakeholders on the project which involved a far-reaching engagement exercise to understand what people wanted and how the service could be improved. To give a little bit of background on Care Information...

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  • Health and Social Care Integration: New Policy Delivery Structure

    29th May 2015 by

    Following the departure of Kathleen Bessos, Deputy Director, Integration and Reshaping Care Division at the end of April 2015, a new structure for the Directorate is being put in place as we move forward into the implementation of health and social care integration. Over the next 12 months, local Integration Authorities will come into existence...

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  • Readiness Towards Implementation

    27th May 2015 by

    – Integration started to go live around Scotland from 1 April 2015, with the new Health and Social Care Partnerships taking on responsibility for planning and delivering joined-up and seamless health and social care provision for adults, and also, in some areas, children’s services. Integration Schemes from each Health Board and Local Authority were submitted...

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  • Innovative Health Intelligence – Augmenting Integration and Quality

    27th May 2015 by

    – We all know that Health and Social Care Partnerships will play a pivotal role in improving the health and wellbeing of the people in Scotland. Effective information is going to be essential to ensure intelligence underpins local strategic planning and decision making. Here at the Information Services Division, part of Public Health and Intelligence...

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  • Chief Officers Spotlight: Christina West

    26th May 2015 by

    Argyll and Bute is geographically the second largest local authority area in Scotland. We have 23 inhabited islands, scattered, remote rural communities and a number of large towns. Locality owned, locality planned and locality delivered – this is the guiding principle for developing integrated health and social care services in Argyll and Bute. Our plan...

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  • Chief Officers Spotlight: Julie Murray

    20th May 2015 by

    – There has been an integrated Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP) in East Renfrewshire since 2006, so we are fortunate to have quite a mature partnership with high degrees of trust and strong relationships, both across our parent organisations and with our partners in the third and independent sectors. We have an integrated management...

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