Health and social care - Planning with People: community engagement and participation guidance

Planning with People guidance sets out the responsibilities NHS boards, local authorities and Integration Joint Boards have to community engagement when health and social care services are being planned, or when changes to services are being considered and supports them to involve people meaningfully.


Footnotes

1 Scottish Government Covid Recovery Strategy: for a fairer future (2021) Covid Recovery Strategy: for a fairer future

2 Christie Commission on the future delivery of public services (2011) Christie Commission on the future delivery of public services

3 National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1987 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/29/section/12H

4 Scottish Executive Clinical Governance Letter October 2001 http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/HDL2001_74.htm

5 Scottish Executive Clinical Governance Letter June 2000 http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/2000_29final.htm

6 The Scottish Office Clinical Governance Letter November 1998 http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/1998_75.htm

7 The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (Establishment of the Scottish Health Council) Regulations 2005

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/120/regulation/2/made

8 ‘temporary change’- e.g., including those that are time limited (temporary), or trialled through a pilot initiative, which will have an impact on the way in which people access or use services.

9 The word ‘people’ should be interpreted to refer to health service users, patients, staff, members of the public, carers, volunteers, and the voluntary organisations that represent them.

10 The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (Establishment of the Scottish Health Council) Regulations 2005 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/120/regulation/2/made

Contact

Email: pwp@gov.scot

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