Publication - Factsheet
Scottish Health Survey Project Board: membership and overview
- Last updated
- 25 January 2023 - see all updates
- Directorate
- Population Health Directorate
- Topic
- Health and social care
A group to support the Scottish Health Survey.
Overview
The Scottish Health Survey Project Board plays a key role in the governance of the Scottish Health Survey, alongside the project manager, information asset owner (Head of Health and Social Care Analytical Services) and a wider network of users.
The board includes representatives from:
- key user organisations
- policy divisions
- Health and Social Care Analysis division and the Office of the Chief Statistician
- the survey contractor
The board meets twice a year and is responsible for making or agreeing strategic decisions about the survey. This includes:
- discussing potential changes to the questionnaire and agreeing major changes, such as new topics for inclusion or topics to be removed
- agreeing the dissemination strategy for the survey
- where appropriate, agreeing any major changes to the methodology of the survey or new modes of data collection
- where feasible, supporting the project manager and contractor in efforts to improve response and minimise bias in the survey
- agreeing appropriate action in response to fieldwork and other contract performance issues (non-contractor members)
- making decisions in relation to the procurement or extension of the survey contract (non-contractor members)
- providing input into the content of publications
- providing a link to users, including health boards and other local areas
Membership
The membership of the board is as follows:
- Neil White (chair, Health and Social Care Analysis division)
- Julie Landsberg (Survey Manager, Health and Social Care Analysis division)
- Xenia Gounari (Health and Social Care Analysis division)
- Morag Shepherd (Health and Social Care Analysis division)
- Nora Mielke (Office of the Chief Statistician)
- Gregor Smith (Chief Medical Officer, Medical Advisory division)
- Tom Ferris (Chief Dental Officer, Dentistry, Optometry and Audiology division)
- Jules Goodlet-Rowley (Population Health Strategy and Improvement division – Tobacco, Gambling, Diet and Healthy Weight)
- Mairi Macpherson (Improving Health and Wellbeing division)
- Andrew Sinclair (Population Health Strategy and Improvement division – Active Scotland)
- Stephen Smith (Mental Health division)
- Morris Fraser (Drugs Policy division)
- Nicci Motiang (Healthcare Quality and Improvement division – Clinical Priorities)
- Lynn MacMillan (Population Health Strategy and Improvement division – Health Inequalities)
- Gillian Purdon (Food Standards Scotland)
- Lucie Giles (Public Health Scotland)
- Dr Eliud Kibuchi (Medical Research Council (MRC))
- Clare Campbell (NHS Fife, representing all health boards)
- Victoria Wilson (Survey contractors, ScotCen)
- Rory McClelland (Survey contractors, ScotCen)
Contact
- First published
- 13 May 2022
- Last updated
- 25 January 2023 - show all updates
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