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Mental health benefits from using my patient voice

WebOlivia shares the mental health benefits from using her voice to call for change, as part of World Mental Health Day 2022. “Mental health has long been a bit of a taboo subject but slowly the perspective is changing and people are understanding that mental health is …

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The House of Care Model

WebThe House of Care is a powerful model of a house built around a care planning conversation between people and the healthcare professional. The House of Care model represents a tangible and proven approach that allows healthcare to embrace Care and Support …

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The importance of asking ‘What Matters To You

WebOverall, implementing a ‘What Matters To You?’ approach in health and social care can lead to more person centred, compassionate, and effective care, resulting in improved care experiences, better health outcomes, and enhanced support for carers and families. …

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Scotland’s first data strategy for health and social care published

WebThe Strategy was promised by the Scottish Government following the refresh of its Digital Health and Care Strategy in 2021. The Scottish Government’s Data Strategy for Health and Social Care sets out to “improve the care and wellbeing of people in Scotland …

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The importance of The Human Rights Act 1998

WebThe Human Rights Act 1998 provides important human rights protections for individuals, including disabled people, people living with long term conditions and unpaid carers. The explainers outline why human rights protections are so important in the …

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Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)

WebOur project is aimed at raising awareness of how Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) can support disabled children and those living with long term conditions, their parents, and carers. Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) isn’t just a policy; it’s vision to make …

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About Integration

WebThe Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 was given Royal Assent on 1st April 2014. This Act provides the legal framework to enable Health & Social Care integration and is the largest piece of public service reform ever undertaken in Scotland. The aim of …

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ALLIANCE Annual Conference 2024

WebThe ALLIANCE’s pioneering annual conference is an opportunity to engage in crucial debate on health and care in Scotland. ‘Our Voice, Our Rights, Our Future’, comes at a significant time of reflection and change, with the ongoing Scottish and UK COVID-19 inquiries, …

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Power – a health and social justice issue

WebPower matters for everything we do: it acts as a capacity and shared resource in all aspects of all our lives. Power, or lack of power, can have an important impact on our circumstances and on our control over the things that affect us. As a result, it is an important and …

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New report: Investigating knowledge and understanding of the …

WebThe Health and Social Care Academy (Academy Programme) commissioned research to investigate the accessibility of information for different groups on the right to health. The research was undertaken by independent researcher Helen Oxley. The report includes …

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Making it Easier: A Health Literacy Action Plan for Scotland

WebThe case for action on health literacy is set out in Making it Easy – A Health Literacy Action Plan for Scotland1, published. in 2014. It set out the ambition for Scotland to be a health-literate society that enables all of us to have the confidence, knowledge, understanding …

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Health, Wellbeing and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Web4 The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland | ALLIANCE INSIGHT Health, Wellbeing and the COVID-19 Pandemic: 1 Scottish Government (2020) Coronavirus (COVID-19): framework for decision making - assessing the four harms Fundamentals of method and …

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Person Centred Voices

WebPerson Centred Voices (formerly Carer Voices) is an ALLIANCE project that works to promote person centred practices in public sector organisations; that is, to advocate for personalisation, empowerment and shared decision making across all areas of care and …

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Conversation Café toolkit

Web2 Conversatio af oolki in support of Scotland’s Women’s Health Plan The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) is the national third sector intermediary for a range of health and social care organisations.

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