Supporting Partnership
The Joint Improvement Team works directly with local health and social care partnerships across Scotland, and provides practical support and additional capacity to those partnerships, to help address the issues and challenges they face.
We provide direct, hands-on support through partnership support programmes , and we encourage and facilitate shared learning and good practice. We’re also here to give information and advice and help find answers to your queries.
We work with partnerships to create the conditions for improvement, for example by promoting joint working and building shared learning, so that those partnerships can implement national strategies and deliver better outcomes in health, social care and housing.
Work Areas
We have four main work areas that are inter-connected. Click here for more details.
Partnerships
Click here for information about the health and social care partnerships in your area.
Briefing Notes for Practitioners and Managers
Click here for a series of short and practical guides aimed for use both in helping members of health, housing and social care partnerships understand and apply the evidence of best practice in partnership, and as a tool for development.
Readiness for Integration Checklist
The Readiness for Integration Checklist is designed to be used in partnership as a discussion aid and quick indicator of readiness for integration. Click here to access.
Partnerships in Health and Social Care
A recent article by Debbie Evans, Wolverhampton University and Tom Forbes, University of Stirling on "Partnerships in Health and Social Care England and Scotland Compared" was published in Public Policy and Administration. You can access a copy of the article here.
