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Healthcare Improvement Scotland

We’re Scotland’s health and care improvement agency. We help make health and care better.

Our Chief Executive, Robbie Pearson, talks about how we’re helping health and social care services in Scotland meet the challenges they face.

Our news

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Scots urged to show the Yellow Card to side effects from medication

7 August 2025
A new report from Healthcare Improvement Scotland has found just 10% of Scots who suffered side effects from taking medication…
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New toolkit promotes collaboration between mental health and substance use services

28 July 2025
We have launched a new Mental Health and Substance Use Toolkit. This helps to promote collaboration between mental health and…
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New report finds Scotland’s Hospital at Home services going from strength to strength 

23 July 2025
Hospital at Home services across Scotland have saved more than £50 million in healthcare costs and prevented around 15,500 people…


Key resources

Leading quality health and care for Scotland

Read our strategy to find out how we’re securing lasting, positive and sustainable improvements.

Our integrated delivery plan

Find out about our priorities for improving health and social care in 2025 – 26

Improvement tools

Find out more about our improvement tools which are now hosted on our website.