The Scottish Government’s Bill to establish a Scottish National Care Service has now been published. However, original discussion and proposals have now grown to cover adult, child, justice, substance misuse and some mental health services – and this new service would be accountable to Ministers. So what do you or your organisation need to understand about what’s in the Bill in order to plan and prepare for what is coming next with the creation of the Scottish National Care Service?
This conference is timed to achieve three things. Firstly, it aims to help all those supporting the delivery of care in Scotland to understand what the content of the new Bill is. Secondly, it is intended to help inform understanding of the consequences of the Bill for existing provision of care and services. Finally, it provides a platform to help inform external input to deliberations on the Bill as Parliament considers, amends and passes it.
The First Minister has described this initiative as ‘the most significant public service reform since the creation of the National Health Service’. The new service is not proposed to own or operate care services in Scotland. Instead, it would oversee the delivery of care, improvement of standards, support of unpaid carers and the training, pay and conditions of staff.
However with new legislation and new government agencies, the devil is always in the detail. So what is in the Bill? What will it mean for the future provision of care in Scotland? What will the consequences be for existing providers and staff? How will all organisations in the care system and the supply chain that supports it be affected? Most importantly, how will this affect outcomes in care quality for those receiving and delivering care?
This conference examines the content of the Bill to establish the Scottish National Care Service and discusses how what is proposed will impact on the delivery of care. It will focus on three broad themes:
Benefits of Attending
Who should attend
This conference is relevant for anyone involved in the planning, organisation or delivery of care services in Scotland. This includes policy makers, care providers, care staff, care giver and care receiver representative groups, regulators, those managing or working in the fields of adult, child, justice, substance misuse and mental health services and health, care and Third Sector bodies responsible for the provision or commissioning of care services.
CEO
Cyrenians
Interim Chief Executive
Scottish Social Services Council
Chief Officer, Health and Social Care Team
COSLA
Director
International Foundation for Integrated Care, Scotland
Deputy CEO
Scottish Care
Chief Officer of Development
the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)
Ewan Aitken
CEO
Cyrenians
Ewan is CEO of Cyrenians, a charity challenging the causes and consequences of homelessness.
A former Convener of Education and Leader of Edinburgh City Council, and CoSLA spokesperson on Education, Ewan has over 30 years’ experience in the public and third sectors. He founded the National Prison Visitor Centre Steering Group, the Ripple Project, and two credit unions. He is a council member of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. Ewan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a member of the Ripple Project Board and the Promise Oversight Board, and a member of the Scottish Government's Rapid Rehousing Transition Plans Delivery Group and National Strategy for Economic Transition Delivery Board. He was a member of the CoSLA Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy and in 2018 he received the SCVO Charity Awards Leading Light Award.
Maree Allison
Interim Chief Executive
Scottish Social Services Council
Maree joined the SSSC in 2010 and was appointed Director of Regulation in 2015. Before joining the SSSC Maree was a litigation solicitor working in private practice. Maree is currently Acting CEO.
Eddie Follan
Chief Officer, Health and Social Care Team
COSLA
Eddie Follan is the Chief Officer in the Health and Social Care Team at COSLA. Eddie has a wide range of experience in the public and third sectors. At COSLA he was also the Chief Officer in the Children and Young People Team. He was previously Head of Policy at Children in Scotland and also co-ordinated the Scottish Living Wage Campaign with the Poverty Alliance. Eddie has a background in health having been a Charge Nurse in psychiatry at the Royal Edinburgh Hsopital.
Anne Hendry (Professor)
Director
International Foundation for Integrated Care, Scotland
Anne chaired the organising committee for ICIC15 in Edinburgh and in 2016 took up a new role as IFICs Senior Associate in Scotland. In 2017 she established an International Centre for Integrated Care, hosted by the University of the West of Scotland, as the home of IFICs collaborating centre in Scotland. Anne chairs an enthusiastic Advisory Board that brings together partners from policy, academia, health, social care, Third sector and independent sectors to oversee four workstreams:
In her Senior Associate role, Anne supports a wide range of IFIC Academy activities, in particular strategic leadership, system coaching, and international knowledge exchange initiatives. These include support for IFIC summer school and conferences, and coordinating the Integrated Care Matters webinar series and special interest groups on Intermediate Care, Palliative Care, Polypharmacy, and Frailty. IFIC Scotland activities champion coproduction, empowerment and the use of lived experience and personal outcomes to transform the relational aspects of integrated care.
Anne is a geriatrician, stroke physician and clinical lead for Integrated Care with over 30 years’ experience of transforming health and social care in Scotland. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), honorary professor at the University of the West of Scotland and holds honorary appointments with the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh’s Global Health Academy. As a graduate of the founding cohort of Delivering the Future, Scotland’s national strategic clinical leadership programme 2005- 2006, she has extensive experience coaching and mentoring leaders from all sectors.
Previous national clinical leadership roles span stroke, Long Term Conditions, Healthcare Quality, Joint Improvement Team, Reshaping Care for Older People, Active and Healthy Ageing, and Multimorbidity. Anne leads a Work Package in the European Joint Action on Frailty, participates in Advisory Boards for a number of European programmes, and provides technical advice for WHO initiatives on integrated care and transformation.
Karen Hedge
Deputy CEO
Scottish Care
Karen’s career in social care began as a paid carer and whilst hugely rewarding, she quickly became motivated by the pressures of the sector. A champion for participation and co-production, she believes in evidencing impact through outcomes for people.
Integration has been a theme of her career, having implemented the single shared assessment in an inner London Borough, and been one of the first people in the UK to have a joint funded NHS and Local Authority post, commissioning in Wiltshire. As Director of Finance, Governance and Compliance at the Prince of Wales Foundation in Washington DC, she held stewardship for a fundraising and grant-making non-profit, reporting directly to Clarence House.
As Deputy CEO of Scottish Care, she continues to shape the future of social care. Her portfolio includes reform, integration, commissioning and procurement and nursing in care. She particularly values the Scottish Care Awards where she learns of the successes of the sector and from those who effect change.
When she is not working, the ‘Ayrshire lass’ can be found on the beach with her family, letting the good sea breeze blow away the cobwebs. Her previous voluntary roles include Trustee for Milestones Trust, and Chair of the NCT Bath branch. She is currently on the committee of the Unfunded List, an international not-for-profit which supports unsuccessful fundraisers to meet their next bid, and is a Board member of Learning Network West, supporting social work education.
Sara Redmond
Chief Officer of Development
the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)
Sara is Chief Officer of Development at the ALLIANCE, responsible for leading and continuing to shape the vision of the organisation in partnership with the Chief Officer of Operations.
Sara is responsible for developing the strategic direction of the organisation, overseeing the ALLIANCE’s portfolio of programmes. Central to this is ensuring a strong voice for disabled people, people living with long term conditions and unpaid carers and opportunity to influence change based on their lived experiences.
Sara’s work involves working closely with ALLIANCE members, developing innovative partnerships that show how change can be achieved, and promoting the role of the third sector as a key innovator and partner in realising Scotland’s national health and wellbeing outcomes.
Since her time at the ALLIANCE Sara has had key policy roles in our health and social care integration and self management programmes.
Previously Sara has worked at Scottish Government as a researcher in the equalities and tackling poverty division and has worked in a number of frontline roles supporting people who have claimed asylum, survivors of sexual violence, and with people experiencing homelessness.
