Living and Dying Well - Scottish Government

LIVING AND DYING WELL a national action plan for palliative and end of life care in Scotland
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Single Shared Assessment (SSA)
The SSA and Carer’s Assessment extend the opportunities to involve a range of staff and agencies in
assessment, and stresses the principle that the most appropriate professional should be responsible
for carrying out the assessment, co-ordinating any other contributions, and identifying the support
or resources needed.
Managed Clinical Networks
A Managed Clinical Network is a network of multi-professional, multidisciplinary and cross-boundary
staff (including doctors, pharmacists, nurses, health visitors, physiotherapists and occupational
therapists) and organisations from primary, secondary and regional health care working together to
make sure that high quality clinically effective services are fairly distributed. Involving patients with
experience of the particular illness is an important part of MCNs development.
Mental Health Collaborative Programme
The overall aim of the Mental Health Collaborative is to support NHS Boards to make the improvements
needed to deliver against key national targets set out by the Scottish Government.
User Defined Service Evaluation Tool (UDSET)
The User Defined Service Evaluation Toolkit (UDSET) has been developed to enable health and social
care partnerships to improve practice through application of user and carer defined outcomes tools,
and to gather information from service users and carers on the outcomes that are important to them
and use this information for performance management, planning, commissioning and service improvement.