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NHSScotland Assure Conference

Published on 24 October 2023

NHSScotland Assure provides expertise and evidence-based advice that contributes to reducing risk, delivering a sustainability healthcare service and improving the healthcare experience for Scotland. Our recently published 2023-2026 Strategy has four strategic objectives of:

  • Climate Sustainability
  • Financial Sustainability
  • Service Excellence
  • Workforce Sustainability

A key aim of the conference is to help us to deliver these strategic objectives. Collaboration is at the heart of our services, we do this through stakeholder networks and look for opportunities for new engagement. While the conference provides excellent networking opportunities, we must also support NHSScotland in its ambition to become a net zero and environmentally sustainable healthcare service. Therefore, NHSScotland Assure will aim to balance both these needs by hosting a mix of in person and virtual events.

This year, NHSScotland Assure are hosting a virtual event on Tuesday 5th December around the theme of Quality in the Healthcare Built Environment. Full details about the speaker programme and registration are available on the event website.

Background

NHS National Services Scotland hosted the first NHSScotland Assure Conference in autumn 2022. The theme for the event was 'Excellence in the Healthcare Environment', information and presentations from the event are available NHSScotland Assure Conference page on the NSS website.

NHSScotland Assure has been designed with users to deliver a coordinated approach to the improvement of risk management and quality in the healthcare environment across NHS Scotland.

We underpin a transformation in the approach to promoting excellence, protecting patients from the risk of infection, and supporting better outcomes for the population.

We provide clinical and technical expertise to minimise risk and improve quality, practice and sustainability in the healthcare environment.

Established in 2021, NHSScotland Assure has introduced new, and where appropriate, enhanced existing services. We encompass services provided by Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI) Scotland and Health Facilities Scotland (HFS).

What will the conference cover?

The NHSScotland Assure Conference will include all the topics under NHSScotland Assure banner and include:

  • ARHAI Scotland
  • Climate Change, Sustainability and Environment
  • Engineering and Assurance
  • Facilities
  • Property and Capital Planning
  • Research, Innovation and Intelligence
  • Workforce Development

Who is it aimed at?

The event is aimed at Estates, Facilities and IPC professionals across the health and social care sector. Delegates can include Chief Executives, Directors of Estates and Facilities, Capital Planners, IPC experts and many other healthcare professionals from a wide variety of disciplines.

Further information

For further information please contact NSS.AssureConf@nhs.scot or use the NHSScotland Assure enquiry form.