Strategic Plan Review – Be Part of the Conversation

We are nearing the end of the process to draft Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) new strategic plan for 2023-2026. The approach we have taken this time has been a consultative and co–produced route to ensure that the plan contains what is important to you, our staff, partners, patients, service users and carers. 

Our existing plan ran from 2019 – 2022 with a one-year extension taking us to March 2023 – this was largely to enable our staff and partners to concentrate on working through the COVID-19 pandemic. Our new plan is set to be signed off and implemented at the Integration Joint Board (IJB)’s meeting in March 2023. 

There were 12 reference groups in total set up. The groups advised us on who should be involved in the process, how we can best engage with them and often leading the engagement. We started meeting with the groups in August 2021 and were asking simply what mattered to you, what should be contained in a plan and what should be changed about our existing plan. The groups contained several HSCP colleagues, partner agency representatives and people with lived experience of our services (spanning a range of service areas including older people, addictions, children, mental health and many more). 

This process of engagement was supported by a large public survey in March 2022, which was available on our website. We also shared it with HSCP staff and stakeholders and publicised it extensively on our social media platforms. 

From all the meetings with the reference groups, additional focus groups and survey responses a draft plan was created. A further round of consultation on the draft was undertaken from July to October 2022 using the same reference groups, additional focus groups, surveys and social media support.

We reviewed and consolidated the initial feedback and comments received and updated the plan. We then asked for further feedback / comments and we are now in the final stages of completing the plan. 

The main changes you will notice within this plan compared to previous plans are, we’ve: 

• reduced some of the technical detail on integration and IJBs (now links)
• reduced duplication of information (e.g., with our HSCP’s Annual Performance Report)
• focussed on including feedback and comments from engagement
• tried to use more meaningful language
• expanded the section on equalities
• focussed on COVID impact and recovery
• a new vision for our HSCP and health and social care in Glasgow and
• new partnership priorities.

The Strategic Plan will contain some activity that helps us achieve our vision and priorities. Around three in four of those consulted wanted to see that information but it will not provide detailed activity for every service area. Instead, we’ll provide some examples to give insight into what we see as successful outcomes or areas of improvement. 

We’ll continue to keep you updated and share information on our Strategic Plan, vision and priorities as we complete this process. 

For more information and to read a draft version of our plan you can find it on the following link: Our Strategic Plan Webpage.

Any comments or questions can also be sent to gchscpstrategicplan@glasgow.gov.uk.