Delivering for Health

Delivering for Health maps out the Scottish Executive’s plans to implement the recommendations of the National Framework for Service Change. Its focus is on shifting towards more preventative medicine and more continuous care in the community. 

Key features include improving help and support so that people with long-term conditions can play an increasing role in managing their condition themselves and treating carers as partners in the provision of care. 

The document sets out how people who need specialist treatment in hospital will get access to a good, safe service provided by the right person even if that means they have to travel, while those who are older, frailer or liable to frequent hospital admission will get co-ordinated care provided locally.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/02102635/26356