Health: Long Term Conditions Framework
Overview
The purpose of this consultation
Many people in Scotland live with the challenges of a long term condition; recently reported as 38% of our population. Long term conditions can impact a person’s whole life: their physical health, mental health, relationships, finance and work.
The Scottish Government has a number of strategies and policies in place to improve care and support for a range of long term conditions and condition groups. The approaches taken focus on safe, effective and person-centred care, delivered through a healthcare quality and improvement approach. These have included plans on neurology, out of hospital cardiac arrest, heart disease, diabetes, respiratory, pain management, stroke, cancer and long covid.
As some condition-specific Scottish Government policies approach the end of their planned duration, we have begun reviewing our approach. This has presented an opportunity to consider if and how policy support for other long term conditions can also be provided. Now, as we plan, we are seeking wide-ranging views on what should be prioritised.
As we reassess how best to focus policy work for long term conditions, there will be a need to prioritise areas for improvement. We recognise that improvement priorities may sometimes cut across all conditions, and other times be more condition-specific. The consultation therefore asks a number of questions around what is working well in long term conditions, what could be better, and how you think we should prioritise work as we move forward.
The Scottish Government’s role is to set policies and frameworks at a national level. NHS boards have responsibility for their workforce, service planning and delivery of those services in their local areas. The role of this consultation is therefore not to reassess local planning of services, instead it is intended to help us identify improvement priorities for long term conditions at a national level. These priorities will help us support the delivery of the NHS reform and renewal work which is underway to make people’s experience of the NHS in Scotland better than it is today.
Read the consultation paper. The consultation paper contains full background information for this consultation. You may find it useful to read or refer to while responding.
Useful information about responding to this consultation
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Why your views matter
This consultation provides an opportunity to gather the views of a wide range of individuals and organisations on what matters when it comes to prevention, care, support and equalities in long term conditions. This might be for yourself, someone you care for informally, for people you care for professionally or otherwise represent, whether on a professional or voluntary basis. We welcome your participation.
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