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We absolutely need to strengthen our focus on prevention, getting it right for everyone or getting it right for every child in Scotland, and improving population health and reducing inequalities.
If you talk through what it is that we could give up or change or adapt to create the time to make the system and the opportunities better, they will go, “Aye. As long as I get time, as long as I get some money and as long as I get some resources, I’ll sign up for that.”
I have been contacted by a staff member from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde who said that its objective was simply to get her out the door and get her to quit her job.
In general practice, we now have technical means to extract that information from GP clinical systems and, for the first time in Scotland, to get much higher-level information on what activity is occurring at cluster or board level.
It is centralised in the thinking—it has to be a national strategy; I get that—but it also appears that, under the current approach, there is no room for others to get involved in assisting.