Thank you for agreeing to share your story/experience at a future Integration Joint Board meeting. The following information will provide you with detail about the role of the Integration Joint Board and its membership and will outline the purpose of asking you to share your story and the anticipated outcomes.
The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 requires local authorities and health boards to work together to integrate health and social care services. In Fife, the Integration Joint Board (IJB) was created for this purpose, and is responsible for the planning and delivery of health and social care services within Fife. The IJB works with its partners, Fife Council and NHS Fife, to improve outcomes for patients, services users, carers, and their families.
The Role of the Integration Joint Board is to ensure that:
The IJB is commonly referred to as the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership – this is the public facing aspect of the Integration Joint Board.
The Integration Joint Board comprises of 30 members:
The information that you provide about your experiences may be included in reports as a case study and used as a learning and improvement opportunity. This ensures that the IJB listens to your story and learns from your experience. It also helps the IJB understand a range of different perspectives and expectations – and importantly whether these are met at the point of care.
Sharing your experiences will influence development and decision making at the Integration Joint Board and improve the quality of care that we provide.
Where necessary, we will share personal information that we hold with our partner agencies Fife Council and NHS Fife.
Sometimes other organisations may request information that we hold, for example the Police or other government agencies. All collection, use, sharing and storage of personal information will be in accordance with legislative requirements, including the General Data Protection Regulation.
You have the right to request access to the information that we hold about you. You can use the contact details provided below to do this.
We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
The agendas and minutes of the meetings of the Integration Joint Board are retained permanently. Personal information included in the reports provided to the IJB, for example in case studies, may also be retained. We will discuss this with you when we ask for your consent to include personal details about you in the case study.
Please contact us if you have any questions about the information that we hold about you
Fife Health and Social Care Partnership,
Rothesay House,
Rothesay Place,
Glenrothes,
Fife,
KY7 5PQ
E-mail: w.anderson3@nhs.net
Tel: 03451 555555 Ext: 440971
If you would like to share your story, please complete the HSCP Personal Story Consent Form