Clinical Directorate

The Clinical Directorate provide trusted leadership, assurance and expertise in clinical and care matters.

We work collaboratively with teams across NSS, the health and care system in Scotland and wider partners, ensuring that NSS services deliver for Scotland’s citizens, patients and clinical community.

Our experienced senior clinicians are drawn from a variety of professional backgrounds – medical, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and healthcare science.

In support of health and care across Scotland, our areas of focus include:

• Digital Prescribing and Dispensing Pathways programme
• National COVID-19 Testing Clinical Governance Oversight
• National Health & Care Innovations
• National Screening Oversight
• Primary and Community Care
• Scan for Safety programme
• Scottish Cancer Network programme

Within NSS, the Clinical Directorate leads on and has overall responsibility for:

• Clinical Governance (read the Duty of Candour Annual Report)
• Quality Improvement
• Research, Development and Innovation
• Healthcare Associated Infection (read the healthcare associated infections annual report)
• Caldicott Guardian (safeguarding patient confidentiality while enabling appropriate sharing of patient information to the highest standards)
• Whistleblowing and raising concerns about wrongdoings or dangers in the workplace (read more about whistleblowing

Watch this video to find out more about who NSS is, how we work and what we do.

You can find out more about our work on addressing health inequalities and Cytosponge from our NHS Scotland Event 2022 posters below:

• Addressing health inequalities by reforming screening engagement and collaborating across health and social care
• A health economic analysis of the introduction of a cell collection system (Cytosponge®) as a viable alternative to upper GI endoscopy in the COVID recovery

Contact us

Have a question or need our help? Get in touch at nss.caldicott@nhs.scot