In this blog, Carol Sinclair explores how good quality health and social care data can improve health and care services. She discusses how the Data Strategy is helping to pave the way in improving gaps that exist in relation to health and care data.

This blog explores the attitudes that the people of Scotland have in relation to their health and care data and identifies seven main relationship types that exist.

A head of Open Government brings vital questions and challenges to the group that aim to help turn the grit in the oyster into a pearl.

Our efforts did not go unnoticed at this year’s Holyrood Digital Health and Care Awards 2022 ceremony.

In October 2021 with the publication of the refreshed Digital Health and Care Strategy, we committed to developing Scotland’s first dedicated Data Strategy for Health and Social Care.

The update included a presentation on the findings from a review of existing literature on health and care data with a specific focus on public engagement.