Practice Note: Care of people living with HIV in Scotland

This practice note is for inspectors, service providers and staff working in care homes, care at home, housing support and other registered care services. 
 
Its purpose is to support inspectors to identify good and weak practice in the care of people living with HIV, support improvement and ensure the best possible outcomes for people experiencing care.  Providers and staff can also use this to make sure they are implementing good practices and to show what a good quality care service should be like.

Government launch Green Paper on Future of Social Care

Government launch Green Paper on Future of Social Care

Publication date

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

NAT welcomes new Green Paper and the opportunity it presents to reform the current social care system

NAT (National AIDS Trust) welcomes the publication of the long awaited Green Paper on social care. This looks at how as a society we can both pay for increasing social care costs and improve the way services are delivered.

Healthcare professionals place high value on social care for people living with HIV... and express concern for the future

Healthcare professionals place high value on social care for people living with HIV... and express concern for the future

Publication date

Monday, July 25, 2011
NAT has launched a report, ‘The impact of social care support for people living with HIV: the results of NAT’s snapshot survey of healthcare professionals’, which strongly illustrates the continued need for social care support for people with HIV; the positive impact it can have on their lives and the value placed on it by clinicians. The report also details the real concern expressed at increasing difficulty in accessing social care and the loss of trained social workers.