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Report of the Joint Future Group

APPENDIX 1 HOW WE WENT ABOUT OUR WORK

1. Susan Deacon, the Minister for Health and Community Care, announced the setting up of the Group at the end of December 1999. We met first in February, and then on 5 subsequent occasions.

2. We drew on the knowledge and understanding of individuals within the Group and on advice from officials in the Scottish Executive. We also received presentations from the then Invest to Save Project Team in Perth and Kinross, now known as ‘Care Together’; Directors of Human Resources and Personnel in local authorities and the NHS; and the Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies on its good practice study. We are grateful for the quality and concise nature of these presentations.

3. Towards the end of September we held 4 regional consultation seminars to bring the general thrust of our proposals to the attention of leaders of councils, health boards and NHS trusts, their senior management, and representatives of providers and users and carers. These seminars endorsed our general direction of travel; but we received many requests for additional information or clarification, which we hope this report now provides.

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