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6. Action Plan: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland ( NHSQIS)
The key role for NHS Quality Improvement Scotland reflects its specific responsibility for patient safety and better integration and co-ordination of national organisations with an interest in quality of care.
The Scottish Medicines Consortium is administratively a part of NHSQIS, and NHSQIS will therefore play a key role in facilitating and supporting the developments proposed for SMC.
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, linking with other relevant bodies should also help develop performance indicators (and possibly Standards) for prudent antimicrobial prescribing, in order to generate data which would enable measurement to track improvement in quality of care and patient safety.
There may be some synergy with existing proposals for improving quality of prescribing within NHSQIS's involvement with the Scottish Patient Safety Alliance programme.
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