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5. What will happen if the preferred option is accepted by NationalPlanning Forum?NHS Boards, breast screening and symptomatic services are currentlyundertaking an evaluation of the preferred option, the results of the publicconsultation and the results of the work with NHS Boards will shape how thisproposal is developed.If the proposal is accepted by the National Planning Forum, this will besubmitted for approval to the NHS Board Chief Executives Group, and thentaken forward to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities.Detailed planning would then be required with all relevant stakeholders, inparticular the NHS Boards, breast screening services, symptomatic services.6. How People have been involved in the Options AppraisalAdvice and guidance on the requirements for public involvement andconsultation has been provided throughout the review process by the ScottishHealth Council (SHC). The Scottish Health Council guidance has taken intoaccount CEL 4 (2010) , ‘Informing, Engaging and Consulting People inDeveloping Health and Community Care Services’, which advises on the levelof public consultation and assessment activity required for a review of thisscale.To ensure all stakeholders were given the opportunity to contribute to theprocess, and provide information to the review, a survey of women’spreferences for the delivery of the breast screening service was launched bythe Cabinet Secretary, alongside the launch of the Scottish Government’sDetect Cancer Early Initiative on 31 July 2011. In addition a survey wasissued to all staff to gain their opinion on the best way forward and surveyswere issued to Radiographers and Radiologists to ascertain their views inrelation to workforce choices. The surveys ran from 1 to 31 August 2011.Following feedback from staff, individual site visits were also conducted toascertain views of staff.To ensure that the Review is conducted in adherence with equalitieslegislation an Equality and Diversity Impact Assessment was carried out onthe current breast screening service, this process will be repeated on thepreferred option for service configuration. In addition, a Health InequalitiesImpact Assessment (HIIA) workshop was held on 9 September 2011 to seekthe views of minority interest groups in relation to the service and theequalities challenges which exist within provision of a service like breastscreening.The full results of the surveys and the output from the HIIA workshop areavailable in the report entitled Results of Initial Consultation which is availableat the following web page:-http://www.nsd.scot.nhs.uk/services/screening/breastscreening/breastreview.html16
The Review Group membership includes 2 patient/public representatives.However, it was agreed by the Review Group, following advice from theScottish Health Council 1 (SHC) that due to the potential impact for women inScotland additional appropriate representation should be made during thescoring exercise. Therefore representation was sought from patient publicinvolvement groups within Scotland for independent public representatives toattend the options appraisal and score the options. 10 representativesattended an introductory workshop at which an outline of the Review wasprovided; 7 representatives attended the options appraisal day to score theoptions.7. Overview of the results of the options appraisalTable 4 below provides an overview of the six short listed options and theresult of the scoring exercise.1 (1) The Scottish Health Council was established by the Scottish Executive in April2005 to promote Patient Focus and Public Involvement in the NHS in Scotland. Themain aim of the SHC is to ensure that the NHS works in partnership with patients,carers and the public in the planning and delivery of NHS services. More informationcan be found at http://www.scottishhealthcouncil.org/home.aspx17
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