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Fife Health and Social Care Integration Joint Board

You can find out about when our Fife Health and Social Care Integration Joint Board Meetings are being held by visiting www.fife.gov.uk

How to participate in and engage with Fife Health and Social Care Partnership

At Fife Health and Social Care Partnership, we aim to build services around people's needs and aspirations and work with individuals and communities to build up their resilience so that the people of Fife are supported to live healthy independent lives.  That means that we need to understand what it feels like for people who use our services and what challenges they face when using them.

In Fife, we are committed to ensure that people of Fife can engage in a number of ways with the Partnership.  To find out more you can follow the hyperlink to read our Participation and Engagement Strategy.

Integration Joint Board's Statutory Duty to Engage

• Integration Joint Boards engagement and participation duties are specified by the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014.  The duty to involve people in the design and delivery of care services was strengthened with the introduction of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.

• Scottish Government and COSLA Planning with People, Community Engagement and Participation Guidance for Health and Social Care was updated in April 2023.  The guidance supports Integration Joint Boards in carrying out their statutory duty to consult as part of any service change process.

What do we mean by Participation?

We use the term participation not simply to mean ‘taking part’ or ‘being present’ but as having some influence over decisions and actions.  So before completing this request, please consider whether stakeholders you choose to engage with eg public, those who use services, patients, staffing groups across Health & Social Care and our partners, including the third and independent sectors, will have some influence over the decisions and actions resulting from this engagement.

Fife Health and Social Care Partnership Participation and Engagement Operating Model

Through our participation and engagement operating model, the participation and engagement team will help and support you to utilise the national guidance for consultation and community engagement activity.  This guidance underpins all planning and engagement processes and activities.

Live Health and Social Care Consultations

We have a range of consultations currently live and we invite you to get involved so that we can hear your views:  www.fife.gov.uk/
consultations

• Mental Health & Wellbeing in Fife

Completed Health and Social Care Consultations

View the findings from our completed consultations by clicking on the links below:

Dementia Review Strategy

Participation and Engagement feedback responses to planning and designing a strategy that meets the needs of people living with Dementia and their families, carers and communities.

• FH&SCP Report DSR Workshops
• FH&SCP Report Online Consultation
• FH&SCP Summary Dementia Review Strategy Consultation

National Care Service

Fife Health & Social Care Partnership workshop responses to the Scottish Government on the proposed National Care Service Consultation.

• NCS - Adult Support and Protection Committee Response
• NCS - Children's Health Services Responses
• NCS - Fife HSCP SLT Response
• NCS - GP Cluster Response
• NCS - Local Partnership Forum Response
• NCS - Locality Planning Stakeholder Response

Advocacy Strategy 2023-2026

• Advocacy Strategy - Overall Feedback 

Commissioning Strategy 2023-2026

• Commissioning Strategy 23-26 Consultation Report

Getting it Right for Everyone (GIRFE) - Phase 1

• GIRFE Phase 1 Overall Feedback

Home First Strategy

• Home First Overall Feedback Report

Primary Care Strategy 2023-2026

• Primary Care Strategy Consultation Summary