Healthcare standards

Hospital will support planned non-COVID healthcare and staff training.

Patients whose appointments were cancelled can now contact GP practice.

Expert advice to help plan future of services.

Routine testing of workforce extended as more services resume.

Advice to health boards.

Urgent care to be made widely available.

Careful resumption of paused services.

Analysis based on mobilisation plans and other health board data, June 2020.

Cabinet Secretary responds to findings.

Outdoor exercise can be taken from later this month.

Further safeguards from Monday to prevent new COVID-19 cases.

Carers Week launched with additional support.

Full analysis of consultation on smoking outside hospitals.

Sets out how health boards will safely and incrementally prioritise the resumption of some paused services, while maintaining COVID-19 capacity and resilience.

Everyone with symptoms urged to book a test.

Fund set up to offer help with expenses.

Everyone over the age of five with symptoms eligible to be tested.

New arrangements to help care providers deal with pandemic pressures.

Three NHS health boards to pilot software.

New ‘safety net’ proposed for care sector due to COVID-19.

Expansion of Scottish manufacturing of gowns.

Target reached as capacity increases.

Payment in event of death in service.

Offers of help from more than 1,600 businesses and individuals.

First Minister opens discussion on “new normal”.

Flight brings vital equipment from China to Scotland.

PPE to be delivered direct to more than one thousand locations.

Easy read version of the revised charter of patient rights and responsibilities.

Further information will help inform on-going response to outbreak.

Over 500 staff working on site.

New medical facility in Glasgow named after First World War nurse.

Closure to apply immediately.

First Minister visits NHS 24 contact centre.

Case note review to take place in spring.

Scottish facilities deliver quicker results.

Increased funding for frontline NHS boards.

Experts to review cases of infection.

An Official Statistics Publication for Scotland.

Building capacity and increasing support.

Proposals to legislate non-surgical services.

We are seeking views on the regulation of non-medically trained providers of non-surgical cosmetic procedures.

Health Secretary accepts recommendations.

Further support for seasonal pressures.

Letters issued by the Director-General for Health and Social Care relating to Annual Operational Plans (AOPs) received from all territorial and national NHS Health Boards for 2019-2020.

Performance data on the current Local Delivery Plan (LDP) Standards - priorities set and agreed between the Scottish Government and NHS Boards to provide assurance on NHS Scotland performance. 

Further steps taken to increase public confidence.

Rise in number of people training to be GPs.

The Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities (the ‘charter’) summarises what you are entitled to when you use NHS services and receive NHS care in Scotland, and what you can do if you feel that your rights have not been respected.

Focuses on reducing the length of time people are waiting for key areas of healthcare.

This guidance focuses on the implementation of the legal duty of candour procedure for health, care or social work services.