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Survey: Proposed national healthcare standards for Scotland

  • Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
  • Type: News Item
  • Published: 23rd February 2024
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Have your say and answer a survey from Healthcare Improvement Scotland on the proposed scope of new health and social care standards.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) is the national health and social care improvement organisation for Scotland. The Standards team has 25 years’ experience in co-producing health and social care standards. The standards they develop are informed and shaped by people who commission, deliver and use services. 

Standards are informed by:

  • the experience and outcomes of people with lived/living experience
  • learning from improvement programmes and examples of good practice
  • published evidence relating to clinical research, best practice guidelines and international standards.

Each set of HIS national standards contains key cross-cutting provisions related to staff, person-centred care, service design and clinical leadership and governance. 

To reduce duplication and support nationwide improvements in the quality of care, HIS have decided to develop a set of standards outlining the core requirements for all healthcare services.

They are inviting stakeholders to comment on the proposed scope of the standards. You can reply to the exercise until 3 April.

Read more and reply to the survey here.

If you have any questions or comments about the scope, get in touch via his.standardsandindicators@nhs.scot.

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