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3. Taking Responsibility
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- Support and encouragement to take greater responsibility for your own health and wellbeing
- An NHS which promotes health and wellbeing in everything it does and everytime you come into contact with it
- Services that are designed around you and draw on expertise from beyond the NHS in providing the support you need
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Our Approach
We want to help people to sustain and improve their health. We therefore need to create environments in which good health can flourish and encourage and support people to take more responsibility for their health and wellbeing through healthy weight management, stopping smoking and more sensible drinking. This can be supported by NHS professionals and activities, but cannot be a matter for NHSScotland alone. It requires a shared vision of what can be achieved and the active participation of all parts of society in a shared effort to improve our nation's health.
Framework for Discussion
The development of our new plan provides an opportunity to discuss and shape the way in which we:
- Develop new action plans on tobacco control and alcohol problems
- Deliver effective services including smoking cessation, brief interventions on harmful and hazardous drinking, psychological therapies and weight management programmes in community settings
- Modernise Scotland's health protection legislation and ensure that we are well placed to combat new threats such as E Coli and pandemic flu
- Deliver effective social marketing activities to support improvements in health in a way that integrates national and local messages and actions
- Increase participation in sport and physical activity, inspired by London 2012 and a successful bid for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014 and continue to ensure that sport contributes to the wider health and wellbeing agenda
- Support Scottish schoolchildren through full implementation of the 2 hour PE target, the Active Schools Programme and providing five days of outdoor education every year in schools
- Extend entitlement to free school meals
- Attract and retain dental professionals, develop the school dental service, enhance oral health skills in primary care and help address longer term capacity issues by creating a third Scottish Dental School in Aberdeen
- Refurbish our school estate, ensuring there are opportunities for community use of sporting facilities based in schools
- Help people back to work and provide safe and health-promoting workplaces, including support for people working in NHSScotland
| Issues to consider |
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- How could the approach described above be developed further in order to enable people of all ages and in all communities to take more responsibility for their own health and wellbeing?
- Which aspects of this agenda would you prioritise?
- What specific actions should NHSScotland take at a national, regional or local level to promote health and sustain a culture of health improvement?
- What further opportunities do you see for supporting and promoting health through cooperation and collaboration between NHSScotland and its partners?
- Have you had any recent personal experiences that might help us shape and inform future actions?
- Which key performance targets would best focus NHSScotland on creating the environments in which good health can flourish?
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