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Healthcare Quality Strategy aim is to promote patient’s inclusion and prevent avoidable treatments and hospitalisations. In other words, it will help the NHS to save money and allocate resource more effectively to reduce inequalities. All of this is going to happen by considering the individual’s views and experiences to improve quality, engaging them into own care and making the decisions about the treatments. (The Scottish Government, 2009) Using relevant supporting literature and evidence, discuss what you learned in relation to this topic and in what ways it relates to values and rights based nursing practice: There are many definitions of Person Centred Care. NHS Education Scotland describes it as working with individual, their carers and family to identify and achieve goals, that are purposeful to them. (NHS Education for Scotland, 2014) NHS Quality Strategy 2010 emphasises the relationship is mutually beneficent for the individual and for the health care services, based on continuous, compassionate care and effective communication. (The Scottish Government, 2010) Similarly, Health Foundation (2014) sees person-centred care as coordinated and adjusted to the needs and wishes of an individual. It is working collaboratively with people, empowering them, providing with skills and knowledge to manage own health and wellbeing. Having said that, health foundation notice there is no one single definition of person-centred care as the term is so broad and variable. It all…

and the first term of the Scottish government began in 1999. This essay will be attempting to explain the events of 1979 and onwards that led to the establishment of our devolved government, the powers and functions of our Parliament and Executive, and the impact of devolution on life in Scotland. It will also describe the impact of the proportional representation offered by the Additional Member System of voting. Finally, this essay will look at arguments on the concepts of Devolution,…

‘Support for tourism’ Reasons for government involvement There are many reasons the Scottish government would be involved in the tourism industry of the country, this is because tourism generates a huge income for the country. The total number of employment in the tourism industry in 2011 was 2.4 million, most of the employment involved as in the food and beverage service industry which employed 458,000 people. Travel and tourism is an industry which relies on its employees, they earn money…

Report amalgamated youth work, adult learning and community work together back in 1975 to form the community education services seen currently. Back then the Labour Government at the time commissioned the report and it has continued to have a significant impact on community education since then. In this essay I will explore how the different antecendents of community education outlined in Community Education, Learning and Development (2010) by Lynn Tett have helped me to understand what…

What is the Current Scottish Legal Aid Policy? Legal aid in Scotland is the responsibility of the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB), an institutional body created by the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (Scottish Legal Aid Board, 2016). The actions of SLAB are consistent and stable but the Scottish government decides the aims of legal aid policy and the Scottish Parliament can implement legislative changes to the policy (Edinburgh & Scottish Legal Aid Board, 2016). The Scottish Legal Aid Board…

nation of Great Britain. This joined the English and Scottish Parliaments into the British Parliament centered in London. The Union promised Scots unhindered access to English markets and colonies. The possibility of economic benefit through trade was a significant pro-union sentiment, expressed best by a Commissioner of Scottish Parliament: This nation is behind all other nations of Europe, for many years, with respect to the effects of an extended trade. This nation being poor and without…

L01 Increasingly in recent times there have been questions raised as to whether the interests of the Scottish people would be better served closer to home. Some have argued for greater legislative powers to be transferred to Holyrood, whilst others instead see separation from the Union as being the key to meeting the needs of the people. This essay will examine these issues and more surrounding the governance of Scotland. When looking at what events were pivotal on the road to Scottish…

there are three main pillars surrounding it; they have the ability to make, amend or repeal any law they see fit. No other body may over power, amend or set aside the properly enacted legislation of parliament, nor can they assemble binding legislation of their own. No Parliament can bind a future parliament meaning that the current parliament cannot create a law that a future parliament would be unable to edit. In its simplest terms parliament is the highest legal authority, however parliament…

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935). Born of peasant ancestry, Gibbon was an active socialist and writer at work during the Scottish Renaissance of the early to mid twentieth century alongside such contemporaries as Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973) and Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978). The author 's careful employment of stream-of-consciousness technique, the Scots idiom and social realism have marked this particular text out as one of the most innovative and defining…

control over the economic welfare of Scotland. Some of the economic levers that Great Britain controls is currency, finances, oil sales and debt. This control over the years has caused a lot of friction and in 2014 the first vote for independent was made. This first referendum was voted down due to the people thinking that Great Britain provided a safe blanket and felt Scotland was too weak to stand on its own economically. Now under the leadership of Minister Nicola Sturgeon, which is the…