National Context. NSD acts on behalf of Scottish Government and NHS Boards to plan for and procure national specialist services. NSD supports the National Specialist Services Committee (NSSC). The remit of NSSC is to advise the NHS Board Chief Executives and through them, the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate on designation and provision of specialist services. NSD has delegated authority from NHS Boards to develop and progress operational changes in service provision in partnership with providing NHS Boards to ensure sustainable delivery of high quality efficient, effective and timely services. National funding is top-sliced from NHS Boards’ allocations and is a limited resource. To ensure this funding is appropriately utilised, reporting standards as outlined in this agreement are a mandatory requirement for all nationally designated specialist services The Provider will deliver services to meet demand and ensure best possible quality and value from the resources invested in the NHS as outlined in A National Clinical Strategy for Scotland (Scottish Government 2016). The Provider is expected to demonstrate alignment with the Chief Medical Officer’s Realising Realistic Medicine principles. This includes, putting the patient at the centre of decision making, encouraging a personalised approach to care, reducing harm and waste, tackling unwarranted variation in care, and innovating to improve.
National Context. Public Sector Transformation
National Context. The Healthcare Quality Strategy,(Scottish Government 2010) which has been developed to ensure delivery of the highest quality healthcare services. • Health and Social Care Standards, (Scottish Government 2017) which set out what patients should expect when using health, social care or social work services in Scotland. They seek to provide better outcomes for everyone; to ensure that individuals are treated with respect and dignity and that the basic human rights are upheld. • Duty of Candour (2018) as provided in the Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016 ensuring that every healthcare professional must be open and honest with patients when something goes wrong with their treatment or care causes, or has the potential to cause, harm or distress. • The Patient Rights (Treatment Time Guarantee) (Scotland) Directions (Scottish Government 2019) which sets out the arrangements for monitoring and recording the treatment time guarantee and communication with patients.
National Context. 2.1 The Children and Social Work Xxx 0000 received royal assent on 27th April 2017. Section 16E of the Act requires each Local Authority Area to establish local arrangements for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
(1) The safeguarding partners for a local authority area in England must make arrangements for—
(a) the safeguarding partners, and
(b) any relevant agencies that they consider appropriate, to work together in exercising their functions, so far as the functions are exercised for the purpose of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area.
(2) The arrangements must include arrangements for the safeguarding partners to work together to identify and respond to the needs of children in the area.
(3) In this section— “relevant agency”, in relation to a local authority area in England, means a person who—
(a) is specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State, and
(b) exercises functions in that area in relation to children; “safeguarding partner”, in relation to a local authority area in England, means—
(i) the local authority;
(ii) a clinical commissioning group for an area any part of which falls within the local authority area;
(iii) the chief officer of police for a police area any part of which falls within the local authority area.”
National Context. 4.1.1 Three social policies and public sector reform ‘evidence demonstrates the need for public services to become outcomes-focussed, integrated and collaborative. They must become transparent, community driven and designed around users’ needs. They should focus on prevention and early intervention.’
National Context. NSD acts on behalf of Scottish Government and NHS Boards to plan for and procure national specialist services. NSD supports the National Specialist Services Committee (NSSC). The remit of NSSC is to advise the NHS Board Chief Executives and through them, the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate on designation and provision of specialist services. NSD has delegated authority from NHS Boards to develop and progress operational changes in service provision in partnership with providing NHS Boards to ensure sustainable delivery of high quality efficient and effective services. National funding is top-sliced from NHS Boards’ allocations and is a limited resource. In order to ensure this funding is appropriately utilised, reporting standards as outlined in this agreement are a mandatory requirement for all national designated services. The Provider will deliver services to meet demand and ensure best possible quality and value from the resources invested in the NHS as outlined in A National Clinical Strategy for Scotland (Scottish Government 2016).
National Context. The university’s Widening Participation Strategy has been developed in the context of national policy, funding changes and external drivers for change. These changes will impact, in particular, on funding for widening participation work. The strategy has been framed in the light of a likely reduction in the amount of funding available to support widening participation activity in the future. HEFCE outlined changes to the funding for improving retention, learning, teaching and widening access in Future Support for Teaching Enhancement and Widening Participation (HEFCE Guide 2008/28). These changes have increased funding for widening access and reduced funding for improving retention. The reduction has, in particular, impacted on London HEIs, and the university has made a careful assessment of the future focus of activities designed to support enhancement and retention work within available resources. Much widening participation work has hitherto been funded by special project funding through Aimhigher and Lifelong Learning Networks. Funding for Lifelong Learning Networks will end in 2010 and Aimhigher funding, which is being progressively reduced, is uncertain beyond 2011. HEFCE has advised universities to target their increasingly limited resources where they can have the most impact (HEFCE Guide 2007/12, p7). In order to maximise value for money, over the next five years, outreach activities will focus on specific local communities and groups currently under-represented in higher education. For the first time, both universities and Aimhigher partnerships have to achieve numerical targets, with at least two-thirds of participants in widening participation activities being expected to come from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds with no previous parental experience of higher education. The university is also required by HEFCE to produce a comprehensive Widening Participation Strategic Assessment, bringing widening participation and access policies together into a single document (HEFCE Guide 2009/1) with an annual progress report as a condition of payment of the HEFCE allocation for widening participation. In framing its Widening Participation Strategy, and associated activities, the university has thus had to make a careful assessment of the balance between sustained support for learners, and activities which maximise the exposure of young people and adults to higher education.
National Context. The Scottish Government’s Purpose is Sustainable Economic Growth1. Success is monitored using the following Purpose Targets: o Economic Growth: To raise the GDP growth rate to the UK level by 2011 To match the GDP growth rate of the small independent EU countries by 2017 o Productivity To rank in the top quartile for productivity against our key trading partners in the OECD by 2017 o Participation To maintain our position on labour market participation as the top performing country in the UK To close the gap with the top five OECD economies by 2017 o Population To match average European (EU15) population growth over the period from 2007 to 2017 Supported by increased healthy life expectancy in Scotland over the period from 2007 to 2017 o Solidarity To increase overall income and the proportion of income earned by the three lowest income deciles as a group by 2017 o Cohesion To narrow the gap in participation between Scotland's best and worst performing regions by 2017 o Sustainability To reduce emissions over the period to 2011 To reduce emissions by 80 percent by 2050 1 To focus Government and public services on creating a more successful country, with opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish, through increasing sustainable economic growth. Delivery of this is set out in the Government Economic Strategy. The Scottish Government’s Five National Strategic Objectives, which describe where the Government will focus action, are: o WEALTHIER & FAIRER - Enable businesses and people to increase their wealth and more people to share fairly in that wealth.
National Context. 1.1.1 Overview of commissioning responsibilities c. Local authorities have the lead for improving health and for coordinating efforts to protect public health. Public health teams within local authorities are responsible for commissioning and funding a number of mandated services and other services to improve the health and wellbeing of local populations. d. Local authorities are mandated to commission and fund comprehensive, open-access HIV/STI testing services, STI treatment services (excluding HIV treatment) and contraception services for the benefit of all persons of all ages present in their area. NHS England is responsible for commissioning and funding HIV treatment services. Clinical Commissioning Groups are now responsible for funding abortion services; vasectomies and sterilisation procedures; and for the promotion of opportunistic STI testing and treatment within general practice.
National Context. 1.1.1 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 4
1.1.2 The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle 4
