Health and Social Care

  • “Hear my voice and return to sender”: hearing the voice of people living in care homes

    18th March 2022 by

    “Hear My Voice and Return to Sender” is a collaborative project between Abbotsford Care and the Care Home Hub from Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. The project is exploring new methods of feedback and engagement to support the development of the Scottish Government’s new healthcare framework. As part of developing this framework, we have had many engagement sessions. Hearing the voice of people living in care homes will be an important part of this process.

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  • Go for gold! Introducing our healthcare framework

    17th February 2022 by

    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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  • Leading the development of the data strategy with positivity and ambition

    14th January 2022 by

    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

    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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  • The King’s Fund Learning from Chief Officers in Scotland

    22nd June 2018 by

    A year after the establishment of integration authorities the Scottish Government and the integration authorities’ Chief Officers invited The King’s Fund to work with them on embedding and developing their roles. We are pleased to say that the King’s Fund has now published it’s report Leading across Health and Social Care in Scotland – Learning from Chief Officers…

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  • New housing development supporting people with complex needs in Midlothian

    31st August 2017 by

    Last Friday myself and a colleague from Autism policy visited Teviot Court, a new purpose built specialist services for people with Autism, learning disabilities and complex support needs in Penicuik, Midlothian. The service has been built by Midlothian Council on the site of an old community centre. It will provide specialist 24 hour support, based on individual assessed needs, and…

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  • Chief Officer’s Spotlight: Keith Redpath, West Dunbartonshire

    24th September 2015 by

    Integration isn’t new to West Dunbartonshire – our successful Community Health & Care Partnership was established in 2010, and that has enabled us to now seamlessly progress into being a Health & Social Care Partnership that embraces adult and older people’s services, children’s service and criminal justice services. In taking all of this forward, I…

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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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  • Helping People to Live Well at Home

    23rd March 2015 by

    – NHS Forth Valley are working in partnership with Falkirk Council to test new ways to support people to live well at home in Bo’ness . Phase 1 of the project initially looked at patients over the age of 85 with dementia and or multiple health related problems. It was noted that while most people…

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  • Spotlight on: Susan Wilson, Interim Chief Officer for Angus Health and Social Care Partnership

    18th February 2015 by

      I am retiring soon and, due to personal circumstances, will experience the world of Integration as a carer.  It is therefore perhaps timely to reflect on my experience and hopes. I’m an Occupational Therapist by trade.  The opportunity to get to know people, help them adapt their assets and abilities, and minimise the difficulties…

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