{"id":3284,"date":"2024-04-19T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/health-social-care\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2024-04-19T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T08:32:12","slug":"how-the-health-and-social-care-data-strategy-for-scotland-shapes-phss-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/health-social-care\/2024\/04\/19\/how-the-health-and-social-care-data-strategy-for-scotland-shapes-phss-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Health and Social Care Data Strategy for Scotland shapes PHS\u2019s work"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Public Health Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Health Scotland (PHS) is Scotland\u2019s national body for public health and wellbeing and one of the key partners delivering the Health and Social Care Data Strategy. At PHS we harness data and intelligence to progress our ambition for Scotland to have the best life expectancy in Western Europe and to eliminate inequalities in health between communities. For example, we do this as part of our role as Scotland\u2019s lead producer of statistics and insights about population health and how the health system is responding to people\u2019s care and treatment needs. Good data about population health helps Scotland to plan its future services, and good data about health service activity helps assess the success of interventions to improve health and reduce demand for care.<\/p>\n

We also support the strategy through our partnership work with organisations such as Research Data Scotland. Our Electronic Data Research and Innovation Service (eDRIS) is the contact point for individuals and organisations who want to generate research insights to improve population health using Scotland\u2019s health and care data.<\/p>\n

The strategy\u2019s commitments to work collaboratively to create meaningful and understandable insights underpin many of PHS\u2019s data products. Highlights of this include:<\/p>\n