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Welcome to the September edition of the Health and Social Care e-bulletin.
We have a number of key news items to flag-up:
- Allan Burns has resigned from his role as Chair within NHS Fife
- The Health and Social Care Partnership have announced their new chair as NHS Fife's Rona Laing.
- Fife is the happiest place to live in Scotland!
- Diversity Week 2016 has kicked off
- If you haven't yet done so you have ten days to respond to the Scottish Government's consultation on its 10 year vision for mental health
- Crisis in the social care sector continues as UNISON declares social care is 'near breaking point'
We love to share your good news
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Make sure to let us know what your organisation is doing so we can share it.
Best wishes,
Christine Davison
Project Support Officer
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Health and Social Care Forum
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Health and Social Care Forum
Date: Thursday 08 September 2016
Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm
Venue: Craig Mitchell House, Flemington Road, Glenrothes, KY7 5QF
Please let Christine know if you're able to attend.
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Health and Social Care Forum - Previous Notes
As the August Forum was cancelled there is no note of the meeting to share.
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National News (
click on title link for full information)
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Mental Health in Scotland - a 10 year vision
The Scottish Government is seeking views on the new Mental Health Strategy which was published on 29 July 2016. The paper pulls together the proposed priorities for the next 10 years. Views are being sought on:
a) the priorities for transforming mental health in Scotland;
b) the proposed early actions to deliver this transformation; and
c) measures of success over the 10 year period.
The deadline for responses is Friday 16 September 2016.
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In our last e-bulletin we reported that health secretary Shona Robison has said that social care reform must not gather dust on a self and that a
shared ambition
for the future of social care support in Scotland had been launched, calling for a fundamental rethink of the way social care is managed to promote human rights for disabled people.
A report from UNISON called
'We care, do you?' is based on a freedom of information request to all local authorities in Scotland and a survey of home care workers. UNISON Scotland's deputy convener Stephen Smellie said the workforce were "stretched to the limit", damaging their own health.
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What Interests You About See Me?
See Me are keen to know more about the people who are connected with See Me and support their work in tackling mental health stigma and discrimination.
By helping them to understand more about how you are connected to See Me and what aspects of their work you are interested in, they can make sure the communications they send are more tailored. Click the title link to take part in their short survey for the chance to win £75 of Love2Shop vouchers.
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Annual Report - Audit of Critical Care in NHS Scotland
This report from the Information Services Division, Health Protection Scotland and the Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group provides a summary of the activity, interventions and outcomes of critical care services in NHSScotland. This audit includes all Intensive Care Units and the majority of High Dependency Units in 2015 in NH SScotland.
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Survey looks at the mental health of UK students
According to a YouGov survey of 1,061 students o
ne in three female students in the UK has a mental health problem,
compared with about a fifth of male undergraduates.
Overall, some 27% of the students said they had a mental health problem. This rose to 45% among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
Universities UK said institutions were working hard to develop good services that linked in with the NHS.
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Mind finds 'Worrying' levels of stress among primary care staff
Mind has released research revealing that almost nine in ten (88%) primary care workers find their work life stressful, significantly higher than the wider UK workforce (56%). The poll of over 1,000 NHS workers in primary care, including GPs, practice nurses, practice managers and their colleagues, also showed that work is currently the most stressful area of their lives, ahead of their finances, health, family life and relationships.
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15 facts about Scotland's population
The National Records of Scotland (NRS) has published its annual review of the country's population statistics in 2015. The statistics paint a fascinating and occasionally surprising picture of Scotland - the state of the nation, as the NRS puts it.
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Charities and MSPs have called for greater support for vulnerable Scots in deprived areas after new figures showed poorer people are more likely to commit suicide.
Suicide is most prevalent in deprived areas with Scots from poverty stricken parts of the country three times more likely to take their own lives than those from better off locations, according to new data.
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| Our GP
'Our GP' aims to design future GP digital services with people, as partners, and based on their needs. Together, we will explore how digital technology could help transform and enable better care.
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Regional News
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NHS Fife chairman Allan Burns resigns
NHS Fife chairman Allan Burns has announced his resignation after more than three years in this post.
Mr Burns confirmed his decision to step down at the health board's annual review at the University of St Andrews' School of Medicine. This has left a vacancy for his post.
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Rona Laing has been appointed as the new Chair of Fife's Health and Social Care Partnership Board. She will take over from Cllr Andrew Rodger who has chaired the board since it became a legal entity in April 2016. The term of the chair is incremental, this year extending to two years before moving to a three year cycle, with it rotating between Fife Council and NHS Fife. The current Chair, Cllr Andrew Rodger, who was appointed by Fife Council last year, will step down in October 2016.
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Diversity Week 2016 has kicked off
Fife Centre for Equalities annual event 'Diversity Week' has started. This year Diversity Week will run until 11 September. Check out their packed programme of events via the title link.
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Package of investment approved for health and social care
Fife's Health and Social Care Partnership have approved, in principle, a package of measures to support the transformation of a range of services across Fife.
The Integration Joint Board (IJB) agreed at their meeting on 04 August, to invest £8.4m in the transformation and redesign of services to help reduce stays in hospital when people are ready to be discharged, support more people to live as independently as possible in the community and help to keep people active and healthy in their communities for longer.
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Still time to input to NHS Fife's New Clinical Strategy
If you haven't yet done so there is still time to contribute to the development of NHS Fife's Clinical Strategy.
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Local News
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The second annual Happiness Index from Bank of Scotland aims to quantify how happy people are in the communities in which they live. It found the Kingdom of Fife made a notable improvement over the last 12 months to overtake the Highlands and be crowned the happiest area of Scotland. Overall, about two-fifths of Fifers said they were "very happy" living in their community, almost double last year's 23%!
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