Realistic Medicine - Taking Care: Chief Medical Officer for Scotland annual report 2023 to 2024

This is the Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Gregor Smith's fourth annual report, and the eighth report on Realistic Medicine. The overarching aim of Realistic Medicine is to deliver better value care for patients, and for our health and care system.


Acknowledgements

Editorial Lead

Dr Calum McPherson

Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellow 2023-24

Editorial Team

Craig Bell

Head of the Realistic Medicine Policy Team, Scottish Government

Professor Graham Ellis

Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Scotland

Professor Marion Bain

Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Scotland

The Realistic Medicine Team

Anne Leitch

Value Based Health and Care Lead

Dr Catherine Labinjoh

National Clinical Advisor

Jane Russell

Support Officer

Mark Burgess

Strengthening Relationships Policy Manager

Renzo Pedreschi

Strengthening Relationships Policy Officer

Dr Stephen Martin

Team Lead

Lead contributors

Taking Care of Our Planet

Professor Sharon Pfleger

Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health, NHS Highland

Dr Frederike Garbe

Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Scotland

Steve Carter

Strategic Reform Team Lead, Population Health Strategy and Improvement Division, Scottish Government

Taking Care of Progress

Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak

Chief Scientist (Health), Scottish Government.

David Thompson

Head of Innovation Adoption, Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government

Alistair Hodgson

Head of Digital Health and Care Policy, Scottish Government

Fiona Fleming

Head of Communications and Engagement, NHS Research Scotland

Health of the Nation

Dr Fatim Lakha

Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Scotland and NHS Tayside

Dr Margaret Douglas,

Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Scotland

Dr Jennifer Champion

Director of Public Health, NHS Forth Valley

Dr Grant Wyper

Public Health Intelligence Adviser, Public Health Scotland

Dr Frederike Garbe

Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Scotland

Dr Sarah Couper

Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Scotland

Dr Rishma Maini

Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Scotland and NHS Fife

Content Contributions

Professor Andrea Williamson, Professor of General Practice and Inclusion Health (General Practice and Primary Care), University of Glasgow

Dr Carey Lunan, GP and Chair of the Scottish Deep End Project

Dr Dominique Allwood, Chief Medical Officer at UCLPartners, London

Fiona Rae, Chief Executive, CFINE

Professor Heather Whalley, Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Chief Scientist for Generation Scotland

Jennifer Hynes, Dietitian, NHS Forth Valley

Maria Gaden, Head of Department, Centre for Sustainable Hospitals, Denmark

Dr Miles Mack, OBE, FRCGP and GP, Dingwall Medical Group

Dr Nicola Joss, Consultant Nephrologist and Stuart Ross, Renal Nurse Specialist, NHS Highland

Phillip McLean, Head of NHS Facilities and Environmental Sustainability, Scottish Government

Professor Victor Montori, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA

Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government

Directorate for Population Health, Scottish Government – Peter Faassen de Heer (Senior Policy Manager), Craig Hewitt (Senior Policy Manager), Dr Suzanne Connolly (Professional Adviser), Dr Jules Goodlet-Rowley (Head of Unit)

Clinical Health, Health Intelligence and Research Division, Public Health Scotland – Mr Campbell Hart (Senior Stakeholder Engagement Officer), Mr Mark McAllister (Organisational Lead for Strategy), Ms Heidi Douglas (Consultant in Public Health, NHS Tayside)

NHS Ayrshire & Arran Diabetes team

Douglas Medical Centre, Dundee

Dying in the Margins – Dr Naomi Richards, Principal Investigator; Margaret Mitchell, photographer. This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, part of UKRI (grant no. ES/S014373/1) with support from Marie Curie. Thanks also to Max and his carers for agreeing to share their stories.

Greener Practices network

iSIMPATHY – Alpana Mair, Dr Iain Wilson and Dr Emily Kennedy

Keep Scotland Beautiful and the staff and pupils of Firpark Primary School

Maximising Independence – Marion Ballantyne (Communications) and Ann Harvey (Community Engagement and Activities Co-ordinator, Wheatley Care)

Obesity Action Scotland

Royal College of General Practitioners – Dr Munro Stewart (GP) and Dr James Morton (GP)

Scottish Ballet – Catherine Cassidy (Director of Organisational Culture and Engagement)

Scottish Directors of Public Health

Contact

Email: realisticmedicine@gov.scot

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