Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014

55 Healthcare Improvement Scotland

(1) 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—

“(3) 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.”.

(3) 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—

“(8) 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.”.