Quality improvement and participation

Our health and social care improvement team (HSCIT) works to improve the quality of care for people across the sector. The team is made up of senior improvement advisers who are all health care professionals with specific areas of focus, including:

Dementia

Palliative care and end of life care, and tissue viability

Nutrition and hydration

Bladder and bowel

Healthy ageing, (including safer mobility, frailty and rehabilitation), manual handling and postural care

Pharmacy

Infection, prevention and control

Learning disability, mental health and drug and alcohol addiction

The Team work strategically and operationally, with internal and external colleagues and frontline care staff, so that people who experience care achieve improved health and wellbeing outcomes and live fulfilling lives.

Core functions of the team include:​​​​​​​

• delivery of targeted quality improvement programmes of work

• providing subject matter expertise on specific health and wellbeing areas both internally and externally

• building quality improvement and health subject matter expertise across the organisation

• developing guidance related to specific health and wellbeing areas

• supporting development and implementation of national guidance by influencing development from a social care perspective

• influencing and shaping local and national policy from a health and social care perspective

• collaborating with national provider organisations to support and sustain improvement​​​​​​​.

If you would like to hear more about our team, get advice or support, please email us at hscimprovement@careinspectorate.gov.scot