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Healthcare
Improvement Scotland is a public
body whose stated aim is to
support "the healthcare
priorities of the Scottish
Government".
One
of its five "key priorities" is
to "provide evidence and share
knowledge that enables people to
get the best out of the services
they use and helps services
improve".
It
has a Sharing Intelligence for
Health and Care Group that from
time to time writes to health
boards with its
findings.
A
letter to NHS Forth Valley dated
October 30, 2020, made a number
of observations across different
services and areas of
responsibility for the health
board.
On
the subject of falls, it
said: "There has been no
improvement in the rate of falls
with harm, and a sustained
deterioration in the rate of all
falls."
The
letter was addressed to NHS Forth
Valley chief executive Cathie
Cowan and signed by Alastair
McLellan, co-lead for quality of
NHS Education for Scotland, and
Simon Watson, medical director of
Healthcare Improvement
Scotland.
A
link to the feedback letters page
sent by the Sharing Intelligence
for Health and Care Group is
published online here.
NB
- The letter sent to NHS Forth
Valley downloads from the link
marked "NHS Forth
Valley: March 2021 (PDF,
700K)" on the above
mentioned page, although the
letter itself is dated October
2020.
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