http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/

About us

We are Healthcare Improvement Scotland, an organisation with many parts and one purpose - better quality health and social care for everyone in Scotland.

We have five key priorities. 

These are areas where we believe we can make the most impact and where we focus our efforts and resources.

• Enabling people to make informed decisions about their care and treatment.
• Helping health and social care organisations to redesign and continuously improve services.
• Provide evidence and share knowledge that enables people to get the best out of the services they use and helps services improve.
• Provide quality assurance that gives people confidence in the services and supports providers to improve.
• Making the best use of resources, we aim to ensure every pound invested in our work adds value to the care people receive.

Our broad work programme supports health and social care services to improve.

This includes the regulation of independent hospitals and clinics along with the following key parts of our organisation which have specific roles:

The ihub
Helps health and social care providers design and deliver better services for the people of Scotland.

Scottish Health Council
Supports NHS boards and health and social care providers to involve patients and the public in the development of services.

Scottish Health Technologies Group
Provides advice on the clinical and cost effectiveness of healthcare technologies that are likely to have significant implications for patient care in Scotland.

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
Develops evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for NHSScotland.

Scottish Medicines Consortium
Accepts for use those newly-licensed medicines that clearly represent good value for money to NHSScotland.

Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG)
We work with NHS boards across health and care settings in Scotland to improve antibiotic use, to optimise patient outcomes and to minimise harm to individuals and to wider society.

Scottish Patient Safety Programme
Improves the safety and reliability of healthcare and reduces harm, whenever care is delivered.

Published Date: 10 February 2011

The above information is from http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/