Scottish Health Survey Project Board: membership and overview

Overview

The Scottish Health Survey Project Board plays a key role in the governance of the Scottish Health Survey, alongside the project manager, information asset owner (Head of Health and Social Care Analytical Services) and a wider network of users.

The board includes representatives from:

• key user organisations
• policy divisions
• Health and Social Care Analysis division and the Office of the Chief Statistician
• the survey contractor

The board meets twice a year and is responsible for making or agreeing strategic decisions about the survey. This includes:

• discussing potential changes to the questionnaire and agreeing major changes, such as new topics for inclusion or topics to be removed
• agreeing the dissemination strategy for the survey
• where appropriate, agreeing any major changes to the methodology of the survey or new modes of data collection
• where feasible, supporting the project manager and contractor in efforts to improve response and minimise bias in the survey
• agreeing appropriate action in response to fieldwork and other contract performance issues (non-contractor members)
• making decisions in relation to the procurement or extension of the survey contract (non-contractor members)
• providing input into the content of publications
• providing a link to users, including health boards and other local areas

Membership

The membership of the board is as follows:

• Neil White (chair, Health and Social Care Analysis division)
• Julie Landsberg (Survey Manager, Health and Social Care Analysis division)
• Nora Mielke (Office of the Chief Statistician)
• Gregor Smith (Chief Medical Officer, Medical Advisory division)
• Tom Ferris (Chief Dental Officer, Dentistry, Optometry and Audiology division)
• Jules Goodlet-Rowley (Population Health Strategy and Improvement division – Tobacco, Gambling, Diet and Healthy Weight)
• Mairi Macpherson (Improving Health and Wellbeing division)
• Andrew Sinclair (Population Health Strategy and Improvement division – Active Scotland)
• Stephen Smith (Mental Health division)
• Morris Fraser (Drugs Policy division)
• Nicci Motiang (Healthcare Quality and Improvement division – Clinical Priorities)
• Lynn MacMillan (Population Health Strategy and Improvement division – Health Inequalities)
• Gillian Purdon (Food Standards Scotland)
• Lucie Giles (Public Health Scotland)
• Bruce Whyte (Glasgow Centre for Population Health)
• Dr Eliud Kibuchi (Medical Research Council (MRC))
• Clare Campbell (NHS Fife, representing all health boards)
• Victoria Wilson (Survey contractors, ScotCen)
• Stephen Rule (Survey contractors, ScotCen)