We carry out inspections of mental health units in Scotland. The initial focus of this work is on infection prevention and control.
Summary
The programme aims to contribute to the safety and wellbeing of patients and service users within mental health services through independent scrutiny and assurance.
We will also look at expanding our inspection focus to other aspects of safety and quality of care.
How we inspect services
The inspection team will undertake a minimum of 10 inspections of NHS mental health units per year. These inspections will generally be unannounced.
We will inspect using our Infection prevention and control standards.
These supersede all previous Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) standards produced by Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
We will also use our Quality assurance framework.
These, along with the approaches taken in our other inspection programmes, have informed the development of our inspection methodology.