PART 1

Functions of local authorities and Health Boards

Supplementary

Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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The National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 is amended as follows.
2
In section 10I (Healthcare Improvement Scotland: inspection of services provided under the health service)—
a
for subsection (1), substitute—
1
HIS may inspect any service provided under the health service—
a
in pursuance of its general duty of furthering improvement in the quality of health care in Scotland, or
b
for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1B).
,
b
after subsection (1), insert—
1A
Where a service provided under the health service and social services are provided by virtue of an integration scheme approved under section 7 of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”), HIS may inspect the planning, organisation or co-ordination of those services for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1B).
1B
The purposes are—
a
reviewing and evaluating the extent to which the service is complying with the integration delivery principles and contributing to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes,
b
reviewing and evaluating the extent to which the planning, organisation or co-ordination of services provided under the health service and social services is complying with the integration delivery principles and contributing to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes,
c
reviewing and evaluating the effectiveness of a strategic plan prepared under section 29 of the 2014 Act in complying with the integration delivery principles and contributing to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes,
d
encouraging improvement in the extent to which implementation of a strategic plan prepared under section 29 of the 2014 Act complies with the integration delivery principles and contributes to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes, and
e
enabling consideration as to the need for any recommendations to be prepared as to any such improvement to be included in the report prepared under section 10N.
, and
c
after subsection (2), insert—
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In this section—
- “integration delivery principles” has the meaning given by section 31 of the 2014 Act;
- “national health and wellbeing outcomes” has the same meaning as in section 5(1) of the 2014 Act;
- “social services” has the meaning given by section 46 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
.
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In section 10J (inspections of independent health care services)—
a
in subsection (1), after paragraph (b), add—
c
where services provided by an independent health care service and social services are provided in pursuance of an integration scheme approved under section 7 of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”), the planning, organisation or co-ordination of those services.
,
b
in subsection (2)—
i
for “this section” substitute “subsection (1)(a) or (b)”,
ii
after paragraph (e), add—
f
reviewing and evaluating the extent to which the independent health care service is complying with the integration delivery principles and contributing to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes,
g
reviewing and evaluating the extent to which the planning, organisation or co-ordination of services provided by an independent health care service and social services is complying with the integration delivery principles and contributing to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes,
h
reviewing and evaluating the effectiveness of a strategic plan prepared under section 29 of the 2014 Act in complying with the integration delivery principles and contributing to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes,
i
encouraging improvement in the extent to which implementation of a strategic plan prepared under section 29 of the 2014 Act complies with the integration delivery principles and contributes to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes, and
j
enabling consideration as to the need for any recommendations to be prepared as to any such improvement to be included in the report prepared under section 10N.
,
c
after subsection (2), insert—
2A
The purposes of an inspection under subsection (1)(c) may include any of those mentioned in subsection (2)(f) to (j).
, and
d
after subsection (7), add—
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In this section—
- “integration delivery principles” has the meaning given by section 31 of the 2014 Act;
- “national health and wellbeing outcomes” has the same meaning as in section 5(1) of the 2014 Act;
- “social services” has the meaning given by section 46 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
.