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We will... | By... |
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reduce the health gap
(the inequality in life expectancy across Scotland) | - developing and delivering anticipatory care for those 'at risk' wherever they live
- increasing health care services delivered in disadvantaged communities
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enable people with long-term conditions to live healthy lives | - increasing support for self care
- anticipating the needs of vulnerable people
- identifying those people at greatest risk of hospital admission and providing them with earlier care to prevent deterioration of health and reduce emergency admissions
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establish new health and social care services in communities | - prioritising investment in local services, including Community Health Centres that deliver diagnostic and day-case treatment
- developing practitioners with extended roles
- fully utilising the skills of all professionals through stronger teamwork in Community Health Partnerships
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accelerate improvements in mental health services | - identifying priorities for investment in a delivery plan that builds on our Framework for Mental Health in Scotland
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build on recent progress on waiting times | - delivering our waiting time commitments for 2007
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ensure that wherever people need care, their medical history is available to the service provider | - implementing a national information and communication technology system, including an Electronic Health Record
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streamline unscheduled (emergency) hospital care | - delivering services locally in Community Casualty Units when it is safe to do so, and in well-resourced Emergency Centres when it is necessary to do so
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separate planned from unscheduled care | - aiming to make day case surgery the norm
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remove bottlenecks in diagnostic services | - delivering on our diagnostic waiting time commitments for 2008
- increasing the range of locally available diagnostic services
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apply a systematic approach to decisions regarding the concentration of specialist services | - basing our decisions on National Framework recommendations
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strengthen health care in remote and rural areas | - establishing the Scottish Centre for Telehealth
- identifying what services can be safely delivered in Rural General Hospitals
- educating and training health care professionals with specialist skills for practice in those hospitals
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decide where national specialist services such as neurosurgery and neuroscience and tertiary paediatric services should be provided | - aiming to make the best use of valuable specialist skills, and delivering services of the highest quality
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