This section features the latest news from Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
Death certification review service annual report 2024-2025: October 2025
Death Certification Review Service Annual Report 2024-2025: October 2025
Acute leukaemia clinical quality performance indicators: July 2025
Acute Leukaemia Clinical Quality Performance Indicators. Published November 2021
Options Appraisal, different ways to embed collaborative care: National learning event, September 2025
On Wednesday 24 September, our Mental Health and Substance Use team hosted an online national learning webinar. This webinar focused on options appraisals and presented examples of different models of care for supporting people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions.
DentOutline – independent healthcare inspection report: October 2025
Independent Healthcare Inspection report for DentOutline, Edinburgh. Published 01 October 2025.
Aspyre Aesthetics – independent healthcare inspection report: October 2025
Independent Healthcare Inspection report for Aspyre Aesthetics, Glasgow. Published 01 October 2025.
Angel Face Aesthetics – independent healthcare inspection report: October 2025
Independent Healthcare Inspection report for Angel Face Aesthetics, Glasgow. Published 01 October 2025.
Adult support and protection supported self-evaluation overview report: September 2025
Adult support and protection interim overview report: September 2025
HSP Monitoring and development of staffing tools: September 2025
Healthcare Staffing Programme (HSP) Monitoring and development of staffing tools: September 2025. Includes:
Transfer of the Emergency Care Provision Staffing Level Tool from SSTS to SafeCare: September 2025; Transfer of the Neonatal Staffing Level Tool from SSTS to SafeCare: September 2025; One Nurse to One Patient Ratio Calculation: September 2025; Updates to staffing level tools to reflect the 36 hour reduced working week: September 2025; HSP Recommendation Maternity Services Staffing Level Tool: October 2025
Media Note: Paracetamol and Pregnancy
SIGN, part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland, has issued a statement to ensure that healthcare professionals, patients and the public are provided with the best evidence for practice regarding the use of paracetamol in pregnancy.
Paracetamol and pregnancy
SIGN, part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland, has issued a statement to ensure that healthcare professionals, patients and the public are […]