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The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, [2] (Scottish Gaelic: Rùnaire a’ Chaibineit airson Slàinte is Cùram Sòisealta) commonly referred to as the Health Secretary (Scottish Gaelic: Rùnaire na Slàinte), is a cabinet position in the Scottish Government.
Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is a non-departmental public body responsible for raising standards in the country's social work, social care, children and young people's workforce, registering people who work in social work, social care, children's and young people's services, and the regulation of education and training.
There are 14 health boards (HBs) which are the upper tier of the Scottish health care system, reporting directly to the Scottish Government. [ 8 ] [ 24 ] They were created in 1974 as a result of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 and are based on groups of the local government districts that existed between 1975 and 1996.
The Chief Executive of NHS Scotland and Director-General of the Scottish Government's Health and Social Care Directorates is Caroline Lamb. There is a direct relationship between Ministers and the Directorates, but this relationship is not consistent across the Government as there is often no direct read across to Ministerial portfolios from DGs.
Accountable to the Scottish Government, NSS works at the heart of Scotland’s health service, providing national strategic support services and expert advice to NHSScotland. Its integral role to NHSScotland means the organisation works closely with other organisations across Scotland’s health and care landscape - especially NHS Boards - in ...
The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 provides the legislative framework for the integration of health and social care in Scotland.. Ahead of the legislation coming into effect, an Integrated Resource Framework (IRF) was developed and tested, with HSCP models tested in four localities: Highland; Lothian; Ayrshire and Arran; and Tayside.
NES is the national NHS health board with a responsibility to develop and deliver education and training for those people who work in NHS Scotland. [ 1 ] To enable it to fulfil its remit of promoting best practice in the education and lifelong learning of all NHS staff, NES has statutory functions.
Scottish University for Industry (learndirect Scotland, learndirect Scotland for business, ILA Scotland and The Big Plus) Training for Work; Skillseekers; Modern Apprenticeships; In 2010, the agency found itself facing funding cuts of more than £20 million and needing to find 125 voluntary redundancies, one tenth of its workforce. [3]