Gender & Health in NHS Scotland

Men’s Health is EverythingMHFS National Conference 19 September 2006

What are we trying to achieve?

• a service where people are respected, treated as individuals and involved in their own care

• a service where individuals, groups and communities are involved in improving the quality of care, and in influencing priorities and in planning services

• a service designed for and involving users

Patient Focus Public Involvement (2001)

Delivering for Health (2005)

‘develop options for change with people, not for them, starting from the patient experience and engaging the public early on to develop solutions rather than have them respond to pre-determined plans conceived by the professionals’.

A duty to involve A duty to promote equality of

opportunity

NHS Health Reform (Scotland) Act 2004

Key Policies & Drivers

NHS Scotland

Patient Focus Public Involvement (2001) Partnership for Care (2003)NHS Health Reform (Scotland) Act (2004)National Standards for Community Engagement (2005)Equality Impact Assessment Toolkit (interim guidance) (2005)Delivering for Health (2005)

Key Policies & Drivers

Equalities Legislation

Race Relations Amendment Act (2000)/Fair for All (2001)Disability Discrimination Act (1995)(2005) / DED (2006)Equality Act (2006) leading toGender Equality Duty (2007) Commission for Equality and Human Rights (2007) Single Equality Act anticipated (2008)

Partnership for Care (2003) committed to

“ extend the principles set out in Fair for All (NHS Scotland response to race relations amendment act, 2000) across the NHS to ensure that our health services recognise and respond sensitively to the individual needs, backgrounds and circumstances of people’s lives.”

Fair for All – the Wider Challenge

addresses this commitment by extending our PFPI approach to recognise the specific inequalities

experienced by people because of

Age, Disability, Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation and Religion and Belief