• Introduction
• Why a Scottish Health Council?
• What The Scottish Health Council Will Do
• 2006/07 Annual Assessment of NHS Boards - Self Assessments
• Patient Focus and Public Involvement
• New Arrangements for Patient Focus and Public Involvement
• Scottish Health Council Appointments
• Scottish Health Council Minutes
• Background information

What The Scottish Health Council Will Do

The fundamental purpose of the Scottish Health Council is to promote improvements in the quality and extent of patient focus and public involvement in health services. The Council will have three main functions of:

• assessment
• development
• feedback. 

The Scottish Health Council will ensure that patients, the public and NHS Scotland have:

• national standards for a patient-focused NHS that involves the public in health services
• an independent method to check the performance of NHS Boards in delivering a patient-focused NHS that involves the public in health services
• the best possible information about how well NHS Boards are involving people in decisions about health services and what difference this is making
• a national source of information and advice on best practice in involving the public in health services and ensuring a patient-focused NHS
• effective ways of providing and obtaining feedback on people’s experiences of health services, with appropriate support services in place.

You can read more about proposals for the ways in which the Scottish Health Council will carry out its function in the Scottish Health Council Workplan 2007 - 2008

Please click here to download a copy of The Way Ahead - Delivering The Future (Corporate Plan 2007 -2012)

Previous Documents

Scottish Health Council Workplan 2006 - 2007.