Health and Social Care
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Data-Driven Care in a Digital Age: One Year On
23rd April 2024 by Digital Health and Care Team
Carol Sinclair, chair of the Data Board for Health and Social Care, reflects on the first year of the Data Strategy.
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Data Strategy governance supports delivery
16th January 2024 by Digital Health and Care Team
Eddie Follan and Jonathan Cameron, co-chairs of Scotland’s Health and Social Care Data Delivery Sub-Board, outline its purpose and impact in supporting the delivery of Scotland’s health and social care Data Strategy.
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Driving Data Excellence
16th November 2023 by Digital Health and Care Team
Joe Deary and Ananda Allan, Co-Chairs of Scotland’s Health and Social Care Data Standards Sub-Board highlight the purpose and impact of their work supporting the delivery of Scotland’s health and social care Data Strategy.
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Data Strategy update
11th September 2023 by Digital Health and Care Team
The latest update on the Data Strategy and the formation of two new Sub-boards.
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My first update as Women’s Health Champion
25th April 2023 by Professor Anna Glasier
As most of you will be aware, I took up my post as Women’s Health Champion at the end of January. I know that many of you were looking forward to someone taking up the post and so I thought you might like to know what I have been doing since I started, and how…
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Onto the next step
22nd November 2022 by Digital Health and Care Team
Jonathan Cameron reflects on recent developments and the next steps for Scotland’s first ever health and social care Data Strategy.
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast!
15th November 2022 by Digital Health and Care Team
In the first of a series of blogs about data and its management, Carol Sinclair reflects on the fundamental importance of culture and how this influences new approaches.
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Care homes: why ‘My Health My Care My Home’ matters
15th July 2022 by Kirstin Millar
Dr Paul Baughan, GP and Professional Adviser to CMO on Ageing and Health reflects on the development of ‘My Health My Care My Home’, a newly published healthcare framework for adults living in care homes.
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Please mind the gap
11th May 2022 by Carol Sinclair - Chief Officer, Public Health Scotland
In this blog, Carol Sinclair explores how good quality health and social care data can improve health and care services. She discusses how the Data Strategy is helping to pave the way in improving gaps around health and care data.
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Understanding attitudes to health and care data
22nd April 2022 by Adam Lang - Head of Nesta Scotland
This blog explores the various relationships that people in Scotland have with regards health and care data with a particular focus on voices which are not heard as easily or as often as others.