Primary and Community Health Steering Group

Overview

This group has met regularly since May 2024 and brings together stakeholders and delivery partners who have an interest in the strategic reform of primary care services and interfaces with community health services. 

Its purpose is to provide advice to the Scottish Government on the reform of primary care services within the wider context of long-term reform of health and social care.

The group's work contributes to advice to Scottish ministers on an ongoing basis.

Members

• Director of Primary Care Directorate, Scottish Government
• Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Government
• Chief Allied Health Professions Officer, Scottish Government
• Professional Nurse Adviser for Primary Care and Chief Nursing Officer representative, Scottish Government
• Delivery Director, Preventative and Proactive Care Programme, Scottish Government
• Head of Health and Social Care Analysis, Scottish Government
• Director of Dentistry, NHS Borders
• Director of Allied Health Professionals, NHS Fife
• Deputy Medical Director for Primary Care, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Primary Care Leads Group representative
• Associate Medical Director Primary and Community Services, NHS Borders
• Director of National Centre for Remote and Rural Health and Care
• Director of Pharmacy, NHS Borders
• Scottish Executive Nurse Directors (SEND) Representative and Executive Nurse Director NHS Ayrshire and Arran
• Director of Midwifery, NHS Western Isles
• Chief Executive, NHS 24
• Chief Executive, Scottish Ambulance Service
• NHS Board Optometric Advisor, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
• Head of Audiology Services, NHS Tayside and Board Member of the British Academy of Audiology
• Director of Psychology NHS Fife Psychology Service and Vice Chair of Heads of Psychology Scotland (HOPS)
• NHS Board Digital Leads Group representative
• Chief Officer South Lanarkshire HSCP and HSCP Chief Officers Representative
• Nurse Director, Angus Health and Social Care Partnership
• National Strategic Lead for Primary Care, Health and Social Care Scotland
• Interim Director, Primary/Community Care, Strategy, Performance & Service Transformation, National Services Scotland (NSS)
• Head of Digital Services, Practitioner Services Division, National Services Scotland (NSS)
• Director of Nursing and Systems Improvement & Deputy Chief Executive, Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS)
• Chief Executive, National Education for Scotland (NES)
• Director of Digital, National Education for Scotland (NES)
• Director of Place and Wellbeing, Public Health Scotland (PHS)
• Out of Hours (OOH) Oversight Group Representatives
• Chair, Scottish General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association (SGPC BMA)
• Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland (RCGP Scotland)
• Associate Director, Royal College of Nurses (RCN)
• National Director, British Dental Association Scotland
• Vice Chair, Optometry Scotland    
• CEO Community Pharmacy Scotland
• Director for Scotland, Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• General Practice Managers Network representative
• Professor of Medical Education, University of Glasgow and Co-Director of the Scottish School of Primary Care
• Professor of Health Economics, University of Glasgow
• Chief Executive and Nurse Director, Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland
• Chief Officer of Development, The ALLIANCE 
• Chief Executive, Voluntary Health Scotland

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