Health 'involvement' scheme
HEALTH chiefs in Lothian are to pilot a scheme to increase public involvement with the NHS, without introducing direct elections to health boards.
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon today announced direct elections would be piloted from spring next year by NHS Fife and NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
But NHS Lothian and NHS Grampian will test other ways in which to encourage engagement between the public and the health service.
Lothian health chiefs opposed the idea of direct elections when they gave evidence to MSPs last year.
Instead, they said they wanted to build on the long history in Scotland of mutual societies and create an NHS Lothian mutual membership forum, which would elect representatives to a new "Involving People Committee".
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