{"id":963,"date":"2015-04-30T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/health-and-social-care-integration\/?p=963"},"modified":"2018-04-03T18:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:07:40","slug":"its-all-about-working-in-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/health-social-care\/2015\/04\/30\/its-all-about-working-in-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s all about Working in Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jo MacLennan is Head of Partnership Development within the Integration and Reshaping Care Division at the Scottish Government. She\u2019s spent a large part of her career working nationally in Special NHS Boards including – NHS Health Scotland<\/a> and the Scottish Ambulance Service<\/a> concentrating on health and service improvement initiatives. Jo previously worked in the Public Service Reform and the Public Bodies Division \u00a0in the Scottish Government.
\n1. As Head of Partnership Development, what is does your role entail? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the last six months, I\u2019ve been focused on enhancing our relationships with the 31 Health and Social Care Partnerships by building up a stronger evidence base of how each of the Partnerships operate, learning about their priorities and challenges and how we can best support and apply our skills to enable them to deliver successfully for integration.<\/p>\n

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We know that a \u2018one size fits all\u2019 approach won\u2019t meet the needs of our population, and therefore strengthening locality planning and giving local areas ownership of the integration agenda will enable flexibility and the scope for them to flourish. The health and social care integration principles have been designed to allow Partnerships to tailor services locally according to the character and requirements of the people and places they serve.<\/p>\n

All Health and Social Care Partnerships have now submitted their Integration Schemes, and these are in the process of being reviewed via the official Parliamentary process. To mark the progress and success of the integration journey so far, we hosted a national one day event \u2018Leading for Better Outcomes\u2019 for Executive Leaders on March 30, 2015. It was an important milestone to pause for thought and reflect, but also to look ahead to the next stage of the challenge.\u00a0 There was strong Ministerial presence and support for the event including the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance & Sustainable Growth, John Swinney, as well as Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing & Sport, Shona Robison and Minister for Local Government & Community Empowerment, Marco Biagi.<\/p>\n

2. What is the role of the Scottish Government going forward into implementation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe that the Scottish Government, in collaboration with its stakeholders and partners, have a critical role to engage and support the new Partnership areas and we will continue to work closely with the Chief Officer\u2019s and their respective leadership teams to build and enhance their locality planning processes to help to share learning and development. By enhancing relationships and connecting people with one another, this will enable us to reinforce the vision and rationale as to why integration is so important. Our goal is to help to raise the profile and progress of the Partnerships and to ignite the pace and scale of the integration process.<\/p>\n