Integration of Adult Health and Social Care in Scotland Consultation: Scottish Government Response

Conclusion and next steps

116. We are grateful for all of the input we have received on the important questions raised in this consultation.

117. As previously mentioned, a range of work is underway, with vital input from stakeholders across health and social care, to help ensure our ambitions become practical reality. We are also working to make sure we are fully alert to, and proactively addressing, any potential for wider impact or additional opportunities for improvement that may arise as we take forward this programme of reform.

118. There are various working groups overseeing this work^[6].

119. The next step for this area of policy development will be introduction by the Scottish Government of a Bill to the Scottish Parliament before the summer of 2013.