Better Health, Better Care

29 September 2007

It is important to ensure that everyone who works within the food and health sectors have an opportunity to have an input into this discussion document Better Health, Better Care.

Better Health, Better Care (PDF, 2.35Mb) is designed to seek discussion on the Scottish Government's strategic objectives and the best ways to achieve them.

These focus within seven strategic topics of:

Improving our patients' experience of care
Securing best value
Encouraging everyone to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing
Tackling health inequalities
Work in partnership to provide anticipatory care and improve services for long term conditions
To give children the best possible start in life
Ensure continuous improvement in healthcare

Within each topic, it is important to consider: the key factors when implement these objectives, issues to consider, and who is appropriate to be included in the implementation. Hence it is important to seek stakeholders' opinions from a wider audience other than the NHS sector.

The Government wish to use your feedback to help shape their action plan, which will be published in December 2007.

For more information please visit: www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/Action-Plan

How you can input into this consultation:

1. You can get involved by either submitting a response directly to the Scottish Government:

For an online form, which is available on the following link: www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/08/BetterHealthForm

Or write or email to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon, at: betterhealthbettercare@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or

Better Health, Better Care Consultation
Scottish Executive
St Andrew's House
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

The deadline for receiving all comments is Monday 12 November.

AND/OR

2. Send your comments to the Alliance and we will co-ordinate a members? response.

To aid this process of gathering members' views, a form has been developed, which can be downloaded below. It focuses specifically on food and health (from the above topics, this is topics 3, 4 and 6). However, we will gather members' comments from any aspect of the document.

All comments will be gathered and fed back through to the Scottish Government. This report of Alliance members' views will also be posted on the website mid November.

Please complete this form or send us an e-mail with your comments to the fha@health.scot.nhs.uk by Friday 2 November.

Members' response form to the consultation Better Health, Better Care (Word, 158Kb)

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