NHS Ayrshire & Arran (HISA)
HISA is designed to help Health and Social Care services and wider teams, services and partnerships to address health inequalities by challenging them to identify where action is needed and possible in frontline practice; within service planning and strategic practices; and in partnership.
It considers:
- Working with individuals;
- Workforce learning and development;
- Quality of services;
- Working in partnership;
- Employing staff and procuring goods and services;
- Advocating for individuals, communities and lobbying for change.
HISA is free for anyone to use at www.nhshisa.net . It can be used to build capacity in teams and partnerships, as well as an improvement tool which can be used to catalogue change in practice over time. Partnerships and organisations may also be interested in using the tool to inform the development of an inequality capacity-building and improvement plan.