Developing the Scottish Learning and Improvement Framework for Adult Social Care Support and Community Health (SLIF) Digital Tool

About this report

The Draft Scottish Learning and Improvement Framework for Adult Social Care Support and Community Health (SLIF) has been co-produced to support improvement across health and social care services and improve experiences and outcomes for people who use and work in them. The SLIF is a high level framework that outlines a shared vision and priorities for improvement that have been agreed across the system. It highlights the agreed person centered outcomes that set a direction for how improvement will be tracked towards this common vision.

To support the SLIF moving from a strategic document to a tool that could be used in an operational setting, following a quick quote procurement exercise the Scottish Government commissioned Matter of Focus to work alongside them and members of a cross-sector short life working group to develop the SLIF digital tool.

This report describes the process undertaken to develop the SLIF digital tool and learning captured through this process. It details the proposed structure of the Tool, the principles underpinning its use, and considerations for the testing phase.

A prototype of the SLIF digital tool has been produced which will be revised and updated through testing and piloting phases. The Tool is broken down into four core thematic pathways with the full pathways provided in Annex A:

Supporting people thematic pathway: designed to be used by service managers seeking to self-evaluate and improve support for people.

Workforce development thematic pathway: designed to be used by service managers and workforce leads seeking to self-evaluate and improve staff support and workforce development.

IJB governance, quality and outcomes thematic pathway: designed to be used by IJB board members and HSCP officers to underpin regular board reporting and/or support the development of the Annual Performance Report.

Commissioning and procurement thematic pathway: designed to be used by commissioning and procurement managers seeking to self-evaluate and improve commissioning and procurement practice. This pathway is in draft, pending the publication of the ethical commissioning principles and will be updated once this work is completed.