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Site Partners

This website has been compiled by two key partners in the ScotPHO collaboration:

ISD Scotland

ISD Scotland, part of NHS National Services Scotland, is responsible for the collection and development of health and care information.  The information gathered by ISD affords unique opportunities to understand and explore care. It is use to support decision making, inform research and stimulate debate, all with the ultimate aim of improving the life of Scotland's citizens.  ISD provide support and advice to the Scottish Executive Health Department, NHS Boards, Local Authority social work departments, and to a variety of professional bodies and researchers.  See http://www.isdscotland.org/.

The Public Health Observatory Team in ISD was established in August 2004 (first known as the Public Health Information Programme), and is responsible for providing a co-ordinated and comprehensive source of information for those involved in public health and health improvement in Scotland, an in-depth interpretation and analysis of existing data sources to support health improvement in Scotland, and a focus for the development of new routine information sources where gaps exist.

NHS Health Scotland

Health Scotland is the national health improvement organisation, providing leadership and working with partners to improve health and reduce health inequalities through the development and delivery of health improvement policy. It is a Special Health Board within NHS Scotland. It works with a wide range of national and local partners to: enhance understanding of Scotland's health and how to improve it; provide timely and evidence-based inputs to health improvement policy and planning; increase competence and capacity in delivery of health improvement programmes; and improve the quality of strategies to disseminate evidence,learning and good practice. See http://www.healthscotland.com/.

The wider ScotPHO collaboration includes:

  • Health Protection Scotland
    Health Protection Scotland's aim is to work, in partnership with others, to protect the Scottish public from being exposed to hazards which damage their health and to limit any impact on health when such exposures cannot be avoided.  See http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/.

  • General Registers Office for Scotland
    The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) is a government department established by Act of Parliament in 1854.  The Department's functions, stemming in the main from the Registrar General's statutory responsibilities, are: to administer the civil registration of vital events births and deaths, plus marriages, divorces and adoptions and the statutes relating to the formalities of marriage and the conduct of civil marriage; to make available public records about individuals to customers (for example, genealogists); to make arrangements for taking periodic Censuses of Scotland's population, and to prepare and publish demographic and other statistics; to maintain the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) of patients in Scotland for the Scottish Executive.  See http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/ and Scotland's Census Results On Line http://www.scrol.gov.uk/.  

  • NHS24
    NHS 24 offers 24 hour access to telephone healthcare advice and information for the population of Scotland. NHS 24 works with local NHS Boards' Out of Hours Services, the Scottish Ambulance Service and Accident and Emergency units to provide patients with health advice and help when GP practices are closed. NHS 24 holds an electronic patient record based on the Community Health Index (CHI) allowing identifiable, accurate, confidential information sharing with local Out of Hours Services. With over 35,000 calls per week, NHS 24's dataset is a useful addition to the information available on service usage across the country. In addition to collaborating with ScotPHO, NHS 24 is working with Health Protection Scotland on outbreaks, Systems Watch and symptom surveillance activities across Scotland. See http://www.nhs24.com/.

  • Glasgow Centre for Population Health
    The Glasgow Centre for Population Health is a resource to generate insights and evidence, create new solutions and provide leadership for action to improve health and tackle inequality. It provides an arena for academics, policy-makers, practitioners and local people to confront the problems facing population health in Glasgow and beyond. See http://www.gcph.co.uk/.

The ScotPHO collaboration is supported and part funded by the Scottish Executive Health Department.

Further contributors to the website:

We would also like to gratefully acknowledge a number of other organisations and individuals who have contributed to the website:

  • The Scottish Dental Epidemiology Co-ordinating Committee coordinates the National Dental Inspection Programme (NDIP) NDIP aims to inform children and parents of their dental / oral health status and through appropriately anonymised, combined data to advise the Scottish Executive, NHS Boards and other organisations concerned with children's health of the oral disease prevalence in their area.  http://www.scottishdental.org/dentalinspection.htm
  • Consultants in Dental Public Health / Chief Administrative Dental Officers Scotland Group
  • Scottish network of dental public health specialists which provide dental public health advice to NHS Boards, and other organisations.
  • Dental Health Services Research Unit (DHSRU), University of Dundee Gail Topping, Kate Levin, Colin Tilley and Nigel Pitts. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/dhsru/
  • NHS Education for Scotland Hugh Hopewell, Jim Rennie.  http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/
  • University of Glasgow Dental School David Conway.  http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/dental/