NHS 'Once for Scotland' workforce policies: consultation on core policies

1. Responding to this Consultation

We are inviting responses to this consultation by Friday 17 May 2019.

Please respond to this consultation using the Scottish Government's consultation hub, Citizen Space (http://consult.gov.scot). Access and respond to this consultation online at https://consult.gov.scot/health-workforce/once-for-scotland-workforce-policies.

You can save and return to your responses while the consultation is still open.

Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date of Friday 17 May 2019.

If you are unable to respond using our consultation hub, please complete the Respondent Information Form and send to:-

'Once for Scotland' Workforce Policies Programme
Scottish Government
GR, Workforce Practice Unit, Health Workforce, Leadership and Service Reform Directorate
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh EH1 3DG

1.1 Handling your response
1.1.1 If you respond using the consultation hub, you will be directed to the About You page before submitting your response. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are content for your response to published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

1.1.2 All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

1.1.3 If you are unable to respond via Citizen Space, please complete and return the Respondent Information Form included in this document.

1.1.4 To find out how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy policy:- /privacy/

1.2 Next steps in the process
1.2.1 Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public at http://consult.gov.scot. If you use the consultation hub to respond, you will receive a copy of your response via email.

1.2.2 Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us. Responses will be published where we have been given permission to do so.

1.3 Comments and complaints
If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to the contact address above or at Lynn.Hunter@gov.scot

1.4 Scottish Government Consultation process
1.4.1 Consultation is an essential part of the policymaking process. It gives us the opportunity to consider your opinion and expertise on a proposed area of work.

1.4.2 You can find all our consultations online: http://consult.gov.scot. Each consultation details the issues under consideration, as well as a way for you to give us your views, either online, by email or by post.

1.4.3 Responses will be analysed and used as part of the decision making process, along with a range of other available information and evidence. This will enable us to finalise the 'Once for Scotland' Workforce Policies for Scottish Workforce & Staff Governance (SWAG) Committee approval and Cabinet Secretary agreement.

1.4.4 While details of particular circumstances described in a response to a consultation exercise may usefully inform the policy process, consultation exercises cannot address individual concerns and comments, which should be directed to the relevant public body.