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Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing
Thank you for taking the time to take part in this discussion about the priorities for health and wellbeing in Scotland. Whether you are planning to respond by letter or email, or are hoping to come along to one of the events we are holding across Scotland, we look forward to hearing your views and working hard to ensure that they are taken into account as we develop our action plan for the next few years.
In 2005, NHSScotland staff and patients joined together to inform Building a Health Service: Fit for the Future. This set out the challenges facing NHSScotland in the early part of the 21st century and made a series of recommendations about the models of care that were most appropriate to meeting the needs of our patients.
Over the past two years, we have taken some critical first steps along the road to meeting these challenges. We now need to go beyond these initial achievements and accelerate the process of change. We must do all we can to put the expectations of people and patients at the heart of decision making in NHSScotland.
Health and wellbeing matters to us all. I know that everybody who takes the opportunity of participating in this discussion will do so in the spirit of openness and cooperation that has served us well in the past. We need to exchange our views, share our ideas and pool our talents and energies to provide Scotland with the healthcare system it truly deserves.
Thank you for playing your part.
Nicola Sturgeon
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing
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