Our Vision and Values
NHS Health Scotland is committed to considering the diverse needs of our population, to avoid discrimination and promote equality in all of its work. Public involvement is fundamental to delivering a more patient-focussed service and is essential to promoting equality and diversity.
Our Patient Focus and Public Involvement (PFPI) framework, which covers not only PFPI in its narrowest sense but also our approach to promoting equality and diversity, outlines this in more detail.
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Working with partners and the public
Volunteer Policy
Inclusive Publications Policy
Working with partners and the public
NHS Health Scotland has a strong commitment to involving the public and our partners in the planning and delivery of our work.
This is central to achieving our aims of improving health in Scotland and tackling health inequalities across the whole population.
NHS Health Scotland works with the Scottish Health Council to agree our targets for action in terms of Patient Focus and Public Involvement. Our actions for 2008-09 were agreed between NHS Health Scotland and the Scottish Health Council in 2008 and we provided a Summary Report for the year, to the Health Council in May 2009. The report formed part of the discussion at our Annual Review.
Our Patient Focus and Public Involvement Framework outlines how we will work with a wide variety of others to take forward this agenda in a meaningful and practical way.
Volunteer Policy
You can also view Health Scotland's Volunteer Policy. This policy sets out Health Scotland’s position on involving volunteers in contributing to the PFPI agenda in the organisation. It also covers recruiting volunteers as well as issues of support and conduct.
Inclusive Publications Policy
Our Inclusive Publications Policy aims to maximise the accessability of our printed and electronically published health improvement information to the Scottish population whilst maintaining value-for-money. The policy is based on the aims of our PFPI framework and Race Equality Scheme and Disability Equality Scheme and feedback from other NHS Boards.
Reviewed 10 May 2010