The Academy has continued to raise awareness of the conditions necessary for long term, meaningful and sustainable change.

The Academy continued to offer a safe space for collaborative thinking, the sharing of evidence and promoting the voice of lived experience. The Programme has provided people with knowledge, resources and evidence to support long term, meaningful and sustainable change in health and social care.  
 
The Academy produced a series of films to highlight how to implement the Five Ambitions for the Future of Health and Care in action. The ‘Ambitions in Action’ video case series was published to showcase practical examples of the Ambitions in a variety of contexts: Measure Outcomes in Scotland, Reimagining Investment in Scotland and Being Human in Scotland. These films have been shared widely including with West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, as part of a NHS National Services Nurses Engagement Conference, at an event with Leading to Change and with the Self Management Network. A short animation of the Five Ambitions and an easy read document has been produced to support accessibility.  
 
Earlier in the year the Academy hosted an oversubscribed workshop, attended by over 60 people, at the ALLIANCE Annual Conference. The session helped to promote deeper thinking and discussion about the first steps towards change. Participants shared positive feedback following the workshop and highlighted the actions they were going to take within their individual contexts:  
 
“Give power to our members with lived experience, persuade the doubters that this is the right thing to do!”  
“Funding out of the box thinking- community input”  
 
We launched the Unfolding the Future Toolkit which is a tool designed to support ambitious and collaborative conversations about the future of health and care using the framework of the Five Ambitions. The tool uses reflective questions to encourage deeper thinking and to help people make decisions and actions right now which will lead to a more equitable and sustainable future.  
 
The programme continued to raise awareness and disseminate evidence from the ‘Investigating knowledge and understanding of the right to health’ report. Insights from the report relating to stigma and discrimination were referenced in the ALLIANCE’s oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee in support of the Scottish Government’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill. 
 
The ‘Being Human: Everyone has the right to health’ event created a space to help participants understand the barriers to accessing the right to health, discover solutions through the report recommendations and have greater awareness of good practice. The session was chaired by Mhairi Snowden, Director of Human Rights Consortium Scotland and panellists included Wendy Halliday, Director of See Me, Gordon Paterson, Director of Social Care for NHS Education for Scotland (NES), and independent researcher Helen Oxley.  
 
The Academy profiled inspiring leaders from across the sector as part of our Leading Courageously series including: Anna Fowlie, CEO of SCVO; Jimmy Paul, Head of SRVU; Jaquie Pepper, Chief Officer of Perth and Kinross; Sara Redmond, Chief Officer of Development at the ALLIANCE.  

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