Welcome to the Joint Improvement Team Website

Practical support to partnerships across Scotland to deliver better health, housing and social care services

A unique collaboration between NHSScotland, CoSLA and the Scottish Government, we were established in late 2004 to work directly with local health, housing and social care partnerships across Scotland and to provide practical support and additional capacity to partnerships.

Focus on partnership improvement and outcomes

We aim to work together, on a voluntary basis, with partnerships to achieve real, sustainable improvements that suit local needs and to find practical solutions which translate into positive outcomes for patients, users and carers.

Action Areas

These are the key action areas to support service developments and improvements:

• Care at Home
• Commissioning
• Delayed Discharge
• Equipment and Adaptations
• Governance and Management
• Housing
• Integrated Transport with Care

• Intermediate Care
• Managed Care Networks
• Performance Improvement
• Reshaping Care for Older People
• Rural and Remote
• Talking Points: User and Carer Involvement
• Telecare

What's new?

News & Events

23rd May 2013

Health & Social Care Integration Enquiry - JIT in conversation

New report on an informal enquiry on progress being made by local partnerships i.. (more)

16th April 2013

Telecare & Dementia: Report into Evaluation of Renfrewshire Approach Published

The Renfrewshire Partnership project provided 325 people with dementia living in.. (more)

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Latest Updates

A National Telehealth and Telecare Delivery Plan for Scotland to 2015: Driving Improvement, Integration and Innovation

A Scottish Government, CoSLA and NHSScotland Delivery Plan the sets out the vision and direction for a Scotland in which the use of technology, which plays an increasing role in our everyday lives, will be integrated into service development and delivery, transforming access to and availability of services in our homes and communities and more acute settings.

Delivery will be supported by the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare, working in collaboration with the Joint Improvement Team.

National Telehealth and Telecare Delivery Plan [2Mb]

2012/13 Change Fund Resources

Includes all local plans and the mid-year review report.

Innovation to Transformation: Towards World-Class Health, Housing and Social Care - Annual Report