making health boards accountability

Making Health Boards accountable

Good to see that the Scottish Government is pressing forward with

plans to bring in some directly-elected members of Health Boards.

Some recent decisions to change the way NHS services in Scotland

are delivered have raised strong feeling in local communities and

many people believe that some NHS Boards have not taken sufficient

account of the views of local people. The Government understands

that difficult decisions about NHS services have to be made. It

also believes, however, that local people must always be at the

heart of the process, and that the service change process should be

rigorous, evidence-based, and open to scrutiny.

At last!