The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee undertook a short inquiry into winter preparedness and planning within health and social care.
Aims:
The aim of this inquiry was to review the effectiveness of last year’s winter preparedness plan Winter Resilience Overview 2022-23 and make recommendations for the forthcoming 2023-24 winter plan.
What does the Committee want to know?
This call for evidence sought opinions on how successful the Scottish Government has been in implementing actions from its eight priorities to support winter resilience across health and care systems.
We also sought opinions on what can be done to improve upon winter planning for the coming winter.
1. Winter Resilience Overview 2022-23
2. Capacity and system flow
3. Workforce and staff wellbeing
4. Outcomes
5. Do you have anything else to tell us?
The call for views closed on 14 July 2023.
Read the summary of responses (356KB, pdf) posted 18 August 2023