Reading Time: 4 minutes An FAQ blog on the social work workforce in Scotland.
Tag: Care
Social work and the National Care Service
Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog discusses social work and the development of a National Care Service.
The National Care Service – hub for SPICe material
Reading Time: 2 minutes A hub for all SPICe material on the National Care Service (NCS)
The National Care Service – what is happening next?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog discusses recent developments regarding the National Care Service.
Health and Social Care integration Part 2: Have data gaps been addressed?
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog will investigate localities’ health data. Localities are the smaller areas that make up the geographies of integration authorities.
Health and Social Care integration Part 1: Are Integration Authorities successfully integrating?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog will explore the progress of health and social care integration. It will evaluate this progress against the core suite of integration indicators and summarise progress since 2019.
An economy fit for key workers?
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blogpost looks at conditions for “key workers” in the social care and food retail sectors.
Where does health care end and social care begin? 20 years along the road to integration
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog looks at the journey to health and social care integration so far
Has devolution been good for our health?
Reading Time: 8 minutes As part of the programme to mark 20 years since the creation of the Scottish Parliament, SPICe will publish twenty “20 year” blog posts on
Integration in healthcare – lessons from Norway
Reading Time: 4 minutes Norway is often used as a comparison country for Scotland. It has a similar sized population, around five million, and both have faced major reforms