Organisations
The Alliance is the national third sector intermediary for a range of health and social care organisations. The ALLIANCE has over 1,400 members including large, national support providers as well as small, local volunteer-led groups and people who are disabled, living with long term conditions or providing unpaid care. The ALLIANCE has three core aims: ensure people are at the centre, that their voices, expertise and rights drive policy and sit at the heart of design, delivery and improvement of support and services; support transformational change, towards approaches that work with individual and community assets, helping people to stay well, supporting human rights, self management, co-production and independent living; champion and support the third sector as a vital strategic and delivery partner and foster better cross-sector understanding and partnership.
Digital Health and Care Institute, established by NHS24, University of Edinburgh and Glasgow School of Art; the Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI) will co-create sustainable economic growth through new products, services and systems developed together with businesses, academics, healthcare specialists and citizens. Our aim is to generate high value health and social care solutions to the benefit of the people of Scotland and wider. The Digital Health & Care Institute offers a fusion of health, design, technology and business knowledge from the network of it’s partners that span health and care providers, third and private sectors, higher education and business development agencies.
Glasgow Centre for Population Health seeks to generate insights and evidence, support new approaches, and inform and influence action to improve health and tackle inequality. Working with a wide range of stakeholders, they conduct research of direct relevance to policy and practice; facilitate and stimulate the exchange of ideas, fresh thinking and debate; and support processes of development and change. Their activities are directed towards four main aims: to create and test new models for understanding the patterns, and causes, of Glasgow’s enduring poor health while identifying potential solutions and actions for improvement; to bring excellent and innovative population health research together with the work of policy makers and service providers to accelerate and strengthen processes for better and more equal health; to develop greater capacity for effective action to improve health through educational processes and events, provision of regular communications, and organisational and professional development; to be a focus for the exchange of ideas, independent thinking, analysis and debate about population health and health inequalities, linked with similar activities elsewhere in the world.
What Works Scotland is a new initiative to improve the way local areas in Scotland use evidence to make decisions about public service development and reform. We are working with specific Community Planning Partnerships involved in the design and delivery of public services to: learn what is and what isn’t working in their local area; encourage collaborative learning with a range of local authority, business, public sector and community partners; better understand what effective policy interventions and effective services look like; promote the use of evidence in planning and service delivery; help organisations get the skills and knowledge they need to use and interpret evidence; create case studies for wider sharing and sustainability.