JIT Action Group

The JIT Action Group is a team of people that supports the core JIT in implementing its work programme. The group includes GPs, health, housing and social care managers and practitioners, and independent consultants who have extensive experience working in social services, acute and primary health care, and the voluntary and independent sectors. The contribution of the Action Group is critical to our effectiveness in helping partnerships deliver better services.

Here's a summary of some of the skills our Action Group can offer:

Isobel Allan MBE

Serves as the Vice Chairperson of Carers Scotland, whilst still acting as a full-time carer, as well as being the honorary President of the Rett Syndrome Association Scotland. Local and central government involvement in Carer and User issues, with a particular interest in bereavement and loss, counselling skills and interpersonal skills for both professionals and carers.

Dr. Adrian Baker

A practicing GP in Nairn, involved with demand management in Primary Care. Delivering on Anticipatory Care in line with Better Health, Better Care. Data requirements and clinical delivery for Collaborative Contracting. Particular interests in Mental Health and Older Adults.

John Bishop

Independent consultant focussing on Needs, Costs and Quality, which spans performance information, contracting and commissioning and project development. Currently involved in Telecare and outcome measures.

Dr. Martin Campbell

Principal Teaching Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews. Postgraduate teaching and research with an emphasis on people with intellectual disabilities. Focuses on staff training, inspection and quality monitoring of learning disability services.

Ailsa Cook

Including the views of service users and unpaid carers in research, policy and practice, particularly hard to reach groups, such as people with dementia. Impact of joint working on outcomes for service users and unpaid carers. Getting research into practice.

Sylvia Cox

Independent Consultant and researcher. Community care and social housing; older people, people with dementia and people with complex needs. Partnership and integrated working, service user and carer communication and involvement. Service review, development and quality improvement.

Jane Davidson

Registered general & district nurse with over 40 years experience. Main areas of interest and skill base are in Delayed Discharges and discharge planning, within the whole system and across all organisations.

Kay Eastwood

Previously an Executive Nurse Director and lecturer in Healthcare Law and Ethics, now working as an independent consultant. Organisational leadership, development and governance. Performance management, service design, development and review. Associate Inspector with SWIA. Trained Mediator.

Sheila Ferguson

Special needs and housing.

Kate Fewster

Former nurse with strong interest in Medical Ethics. Aspects of nursing for care workers in the private sector. Lay member of SWIA and assessor of Scotvecs in caring.

Andrew Fowlie

Demand and capacity planning, whole system service redesign, and linking health and social care objectives to achievable, timely outcomes.

Bill Gorman

Sessional Inspector with SWIA and part-time independent consultant. Main interests include partnership working, joint planning and commissioning, needs and resource analysis, integrated services, delayed discharge and assessment and care management.

Tony Homer

Freelance consultant for over 10 years, work focuses on organisational analysis and development, service review and planning and quality assurance. Specialises in community care, social housing, social inclusion and community safety with a particular emphasis on supporting partnership working and joint action.

Professor Bob Hudson

Partnership and integrated working in a whole systems context, extensive experience in teaching, research, consultancy and working and integrated care.

Douglas Hutchens

Extensive Health service management and independent consultant. Whole systems redesign and improvement, strategy and policy development, performance management, health planning and project management. Organisational and one to one mentoring. Vice Chair of the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) and Board Member of the Care Commission.

Miriam Jackson

Assessment, care management and management of services for older people, performance management, implementing change, design, development and management of joint teams, training and organisational development, single shared assessment development and implementation.

Brian Kerr

Single shared assessment, carer assessment, care management and joint financing, risk assessment and protection planning; adult protection; Telecare; service development for older people; Free personal care; Service audit (needs, costs, quality) and individual case reviews.

Nell McFadden MBE

Chair of Inverclyde Community Care Forum, extensive experience representing older people in a voluntary capacity, committed to improving services for older people and ensuring their voice is heard.

Kathleen McGuire

Community Health Partnership Implementation Manager and Registered Nurse with a strong background in public health and developing integrated partnerships teams and whole system solutions. Main areas of skill and interest are in reducing emergency admissions, long term conditions and adult rehabilitation.

Emma Miller

Outcomes of partnership and integrated working with emphasis on delivering joined up, holistic support to service users and their unpaid carers. Implementing research in practice.

Kenny Milne

Public Partnership Forum Coordinator with East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership. Partnership working and public involvement/engagement. Previously, chaired both the local disability forum and North Ayrshire Community Care Forum for periods of over five years. Experiences garnered from both of those roles coupled with present employment gives a clear understanding of the many inequalities that exist in care, disability and health over a variety of communities. The importance of bringing the voice of those who suffer inequalities to the appropriate table is vitally important in order to help communities be a better healthier place for all to live as equals. A wheelchair user with a clear understanding of the many ways in which people who have a disability can and sometimes are discriminated against.

Helen Murdoch

CEO of Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association Ltd. Sheltered and very sheltered housing. Strategic management, service development and design, organisational and change management.

Rab Murray

Strategic management issues.

Dr. Alastair Noble

Involved in the multi-team approach and the cost-cube finance model in relation to the Shifting the Balance of Care Group set up to implement the Kerr Report. Strategic issues and service development work, development of intermediate care services, mental health services, commissioning, health planning, research, data analysis to show variation in outcomes.

Tony O’Sullivan

Housing aspects of community and social care and associated finance issues; performance management, strategic planning, economic appraisal and evaluation.

Jane Patmore

Operations management, policy development, and performance management. Organisational development and structural change, project management.

Douglas Philips

Independent consultant in health and social care, providing both advice and practical support on Partnership working, including joint planning and performance management; National and local policy and strategy development and detailed analysis/review of implementation; service redesign together with project development and practical implementation; learning and development, including one to one mentoring and workshop facilitation; Joint Future, Delayed Discharges, Balance of Care, Housing (including sheltered housing), Joint Governance and CHP support.

William Pook

Change management, learning networks, process improvement and performance and outcome indicators, developing financial frameworks.

Eric Purves

Chartered Engineer, former Director of several Housing Associations, and former Scotland Director for the National House-Building Council. Independent consultant specialising in housing.

Stephen Renwick

Chartered Accountant, Chartered Public Finance Accountant, Non Executive Director of NHS Lothian and independent consultant providing accounting and management consultancy; governance, structure and financial control environments; design and delivery of bespoke training programmes.

Winona Samet

Independent consultant providing both advice and practical support on partnership working, including, assessment and care management, Indicator of Relative Need and detailed analysis/review of implementation; service redesign together with project development and practical implementation. Development and implementation of standards for assessment, care and support planning, review and carers assessment. Extensive senior nurse management experience, leading and managing a wide range of primary, community care and older peoples services.

Jane Saren

Independent management and social policy consultant, with experience of social care purchasing and commissioning. Founding managing director of a communications consultancy with focus on public policy and relationship management. Board member of the Care Commission.

Frances Smith

Developing quality systems and standards, strategic management and inspection visits training.

Elaine Torrance

Social care and health.

Jim Verth

Planning & Commissioning Adult Care Services; Governance and Joint Management Arrangements; Performance Management; User and Carer Involvement; Service Access Arrangement and Project Development and Management.

Margot White

Performance management. Process and service improvement, strategic development and change management in joint services with users and carers. Project management, operations and financial management.

Dr Peter Williamson

NHS strategic planning and development, including older people, mental health, learning disabilities and physical disabilities; delayed discharges; and shifting the balance of care. Extensive experience of joint working and community planning.

Gillian Young

Former Head of the Business Intelligence Unit for Scottish Homes. Wide-ranging understanding and expertise in the development and delivery of datasets, information tools and analytical procedures to assist policy analysis and strategic decision-making. Taken a lead role in the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, including the recent proposals for streamlining the SIP monitoring indicators.