The Health and Social Care Academy review 2022

The Academy delivered a broad ranging programme, exploring key issues in the context of transformational change in health and social care.

During 2022, the Health and Social Care Academy continued to work in partnership with the Self-Management and Reducing Gambling Harms teams to deliver two events as part of the ‘Reducing Stigma, Emphasising Humanity’ series. Following the series a final report “Awareness must lead to action” Reducing Stigma Emphasising Humanity was published which included key recommendations directed at the Scottish Government, funders and commissioners, frontline staff and the media about actions they could take to challenge stigma.

Following the successful 20-Minute Neighbourhood event series, delivered in partnership with Disability Equality Scotland and Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland, the Academy published ‘Exploring Scotland’s 20-minute neighbourhoods’. The report contained key learning, insights, and recommendations on how 20-minute neighbourhoods can be designed to be inclusive, diverse, and accessible for everyone in the community. The report was accompanied by a summary video.

We relaunched the ‘Courageous Leadership’ interview, opinion and podcast series which aims to increase awareness of one of the Academy’s 5 Provocations identified to provide the right conditions for transformational change. Interviews included William Rae, Hussein Patwa, Lucy Chetty and opinion piece by Catriona Rowley. The series has been shared across a range of networks.

The Academy worked in collaboration with the policy team to undertake engagement activity to explore the impacts of the cost of living crisis. We worked in partnership with Disability Equality Scotland to host an event as part of Challenge Poverty Week. Following the event we published the report ‘Disabled People, Unpaid Carers and the Cost of Living Crisis: Impacts, Responses and Long Term Solutions’.

We continued to work in partnership with Engender and launched a survey to capture people’s experiences of pregnancy and maternity services during COVID-19. This survey was accompanied by a series of opinions from respondents sharing their stories.

This year we joined The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Core group and co-chaired a webinar as part of the IFIC Integrated Care Matters Series 7 and as part of Self-Management Month on ‘Self-Management and Co-production: Celebrating Innovations’ as an opportunity to showcase innovative person-centered and rights based approaches.

In October, we hosted our second lecture in the ‘Being Human’ series. This lecture was delivered by keynote speaker Professor Alan Miller who explored human rights leadership in Scotland and the forthcoming Human Rights Bill.

To celebrate International Human Rights Day, the Academy delivered a third ‘Being Human’ lecture with keynote speaker Dr Elaine Webster, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde, and Jed Brady, Education and Training Manager and REACH Advocacy. The lecture explored ‘dignity, human rights based approaches and human rights culture in Scotland.’ We launched a series of videos which shared key messages from our staff, partners and members on what human rights means to them and their work.

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