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Our focus on personalisation through the Changing Lives work, encourages service providers to work with people in determining the supports they need at transition to help achieve the best social outcomes and inform future adult service provision.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all NHS hospitals or units where external cleaning and catering contracts are (a) in operation, (b) subject to best value reviews or test marketing, (c) in operation under extended PFI/PPP contracts or (d) planned to operate in hospitals or under construction.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 December 2008
A national CPD team is also in place to support a network of local authority CPD co-ordinators to help share best practice. The team has particular expertise in additional support needs.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 October 2008
By exercising this local discretion in the planning and delivery of services, local authorities and their partners can ensure best use of their available resources.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 September 2008
The funding allocated to stakeholders is for the benefit of all NHS health boards across Scotland in tackling key areas of HAI and introducing best practices and methods. This work is being led by the multi agency HAI Task Force.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 September 2008
Scottish Government officials are currently considering how best to take this forward in Scotland and how to address this issue in the violence against women framework that is being developed.
Also, in November 2007, we set up the Public Sector Diversity Network, which aims to share best practice with other public sector employers on a range of diversity and equality issues, including flexible working.
As with all such applications, they will assess the case on its own meritstaking into account the relevant legislation, policy and best practice and willgive a provisional view to the applicants.
Following publication of theMental Welfare Commission Report Older and Wiser - Findings from our unannouncedvisits to NHS continuing care ward (Bib. number 42946), I have asked the NHSboards to provide action plans that set out how they will ensure that all servicesmeet the standards of the best service as identified in that report.