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Living well with long-term conditions: report of the Open Space events held in Glasgow, Tuesday 13 February 2007 and Aberdeen, Thursday 15 March 2007
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland (LTCAS) was established in 2006 to bring together hundreds of voluntary and community organisations across Scotland in order to give a national voice to ensure the interests and needs of people living with long-term conditions are heard and addressed. The events held in Glasgow on 13 February 2007 and in Aberdeen on 15 March 2077 are described. The events involved people living with long-term conditions, unpaid carers, professionals from health, social care and voluntary organisations and policy makers and aimed to answer the question how can NHS Scotland support people who have long-term conditions and their carers?
Delivering for health: delivering for mental health national standards for crisis services
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Standards for crisis response and resolution services to reduce hospital admissions and repeat admissions are presented. The standards cover access and availability, planning and delivering support, promoting equality and respecting diversity, resolution and discharge, service user involvement, supporting and involving carers, training and workforce development, and working with communities.
Delivering for mental health
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A delivery plan for mental health in Scotland is presented. A functional approach is used that focuses on the key elements of services that need to be in place at each point in a journey of care so that clinicians, service users and carers can be clear about what needs to be delivered. In any service there should be a description of the purpose of the service, the target population, as well as arrangements for standardised joint assessment, referral, admission and discharge, and a range of interventions and therapies which meet the range of needs within the community. The document covers: improvement of the patient and carer experience of mental health services, how to respond better to depression, anxiety and stress, improving the physical health of people with mental illness, better management of long-term mental health conditions, early detection and intervention in self-harm and suicide prevention, better management of admission to, and discharge from, hospital, and child and adolescent mental health services.
Disability equality scheme
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive.
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 220p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Executive's Disability Equality Scheme is presented. The Scheme outlines how, as an organisation, the Scottish Executive intends to approach their goals for disability equality, and emphasises the need to involve disabled people in policy development and to make sure that the needs and wants of disabled people are understood. The disability equality scheme contains 12 chapters covering the context of the Scottish Executive’s approach to disability equality, how disabled people have been involved in the development of the scheme and how involvement with be strengthened during the life span of the scheme, the approach to disability equality impact assessment, the Scottish Executive corporate functions and how disability equality will be taken forward in these areas, including information gathering, and departmental action plans.
Engaging children and young people in community planning; community planning advice note
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
As part of their work in building a picture of the views and concerns of communities, Community Planning Partnerships should be developing an awareness of the diverse needs of the children and young people in their area. This responsibility is shared by all members of the Partnership and all services, not just those traditionally recognised as having a role in working with children and young people. This Advice Note sets out why engagement is so important and looks at the factors which contribute to effective engagement planning and activity.
National quality standards for substance misuse services
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Eleven overarching national quality standards for substance misuse services, each with a set of underpinning statements, have been developed from the point of view of people who use the services. The standards are intended to help all those involved in tackling substance misuse, including service commissioners and planners, statutory, independent and voluntary sector service providers, service users, their families, and the Scottish Executive in terms of policy development and funding. The standards are intended to be relevant not only to treatment and support services but also other services involved with substance misusers, for example those assisting them with employability, housing and money management. The standards are also intended to be used to inform service users, their families or those empowered to represent them, about what they should expect from the services they wish to access and what will be expected of them.
Draft national quality standards for substance misuse services - report on consultation workshops
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 87p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Reports from six one-day workshops about draft quality standards for substance misuse are presented. The workshops were held to maximise participation in the consultation exercise and to enable interested parties to participate more fully in the development process by providing the opportunity to discuss the wider issues more fully. The workshops were held at locations chosen to provide a geographical and urban/rural balance and to maximise accessibility for participants. Local Action teams were consulted in advance of the workshops which attracted substantial interest from individuals, service providers, service users and professional bodies, with approximately 250 attendees in total. Workshops were held in Inverness, Castle Douglas, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Galashiels and Glasgow between February and April 2006. The events introduced and discuss the standards, looked at the ways they can contribute to improving service provision and services outcomes, and considered next steps in developing an evaluation framework. Summaries of the discussions and reports from each workshop are presented.
Draft national quality standards for substance misuse services - report on pilot projects
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
As part of the consultation on draft national quality standards for substance misuse services three pilot projects were carried out across Scotland to gauge the practicality of using the standards to monitor and evaluate services. All three pilots used differing methods and tools for evaluation but all three used the quality standards as reference against which the services were measured. The Forth Valley Substance Action Team (SAT) undertook to lead an evaluation of five services representing a range of sectors who had volunteered to take part. Aberdeenshire, Moray and Perth and Kinross Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) ran a peer evaluation pilot which initially only covered one project. In Glasgow the Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) facilitated the Glasgow Involvement Group (GIG) to undertake a service user evaluation of five voluntary organisations who had elected to take part.
Draft national quality standards for substance misuse services - summary of consultation
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Executive held a consultation about the draft standards between February and April 2006 and invited individuals and organisations with an interest in substance misuse to respond. The main points and actions arising from the consultation are summarised.
Draft national quality standards for substance misuse services consultation report
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A report of the consultation about the draft standards for substance misuse services for Scotland that took place between February and April 2006. The consultation combined four elements: a consultation document and questionnaire, a set of six workshops, three pilot projects to test how practical measuring the standards would be and two service users’ meetings. The main actions arising from the consultation were: clarification of the standards, areas that require additional emphasis within the standards, the importance of participation in the implementation of the standards, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and inspection of the standards, sharing information, resources and partnership working, and strategic development.