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Useful Documents

Keeping informed and resources to help you to present your views:

Documents and publications can be an essential tool which can help to influence change within the National Health Service (NHS). For help in understanding the language of these documents use the Glossary.

Click on the links (see Related Documents - right) to access useful publications and documents...

These ‘Meetings Checklists’ (See Related Documents - right. ) can give you an idea of what to expect if you get involved in healthcare as a patient/ carer representative.

• Meetings Checklist - Introduction

Introduction to using these resources

• Meetings Checklist - Attending

When you are attending a new meeting

• Meetings Checklist - Nominating
  How to nominate a new representative to a meeting

Documents

Our National Health Delivering Change 2000
Outlined the future plan for the NHS in Scotland following devolution to the Scottish Parliament. Identified good practice and encouraged partnership working to address health inequalities and improve services.

Patient Focus Patient Involvement 2001
Document focusing on a new culture in healthcare "...no longer good enough to simply do things to people; a modern healthcare service must do things with the people it serves."

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CHD and Stroke Strategy for Scotland 2002

Strategy Update 2004
Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke became national priorities in Scotland, with £40 million available over 3 years to NHS Boards to fund the required changes

Main points:

• development of Managed Clinical Networks (MCNs) for CHD and stroke across Scotland to coordinate local care
• improvements in the education of health professionals
• new systems for collecting patient information

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Partnership for Care 2003
A focus on partnership working and patient-focus to redesign the NHS.

Main elements:

• 15 NHS Boards to be formed in place of trusts
• Community Health Partnerships (CHP) created
• Scottish Health Council (SHC) created
• focus on health improvement planning and waiting time targets
• roll out of NHS 24 nationally
• Public Partnership Forums in all NHS health board areas

'Kerr Report'—A National Framework for Service Change in the NHS in Scotland: Building A Health Service Fit For The Future 2005

This document was commissioned to provide proposals for the next 20 years of the NHS and focuses on preventing and anticipating health and service problems rather than simply reacting to them. The messages of the Kerr Report have been incorporated into Delivering for Health below.

Delivering for Health 2005

• Scottish Executive response to the ‘Kerr Report’, detailing the main actions the government will take, within current spending plans, to implement the recommendations.

Better Health Better Care
Action Plan December 2007 NHS Scotland

• This Action Plan sets out the Government's programme to deliver a healthier Scotland by helping people to sustain and improve their health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local and faster access to health care. The report is informed by the response to the consultation on Better Health, Better Care: A Discussion Document (August 2007).

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