In December 2004, the Minister for Health and Community Care launched a major policy paper on NHS targets and performance called " Fair to All, Personal to Each". This gives details of NHS targets to the end of 2007 and beyond.
NHSScotland's performance is managed to ensure that we can:
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of services to patients
- Put patients and their needs at the centre of service development
- Achieve greater consistency in healthcare provision across Scotland
- Improve health and reduce inequalities
- Promote partnerships between patients and professionals who care for them
- Promote the integration of the different parts of the NHSiS and provide seamless services
- Increase accountability of the NHS, and the amount of information available to the public and patients
- Promote partnerships between the NHS in Scotland and other organisations whose work can help improve health and quality or services.
To support this work we utilise the Local Delivery Plan along with information gathered from the NHS by bodies such as NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and ISD (eg waiting times).