NHS QIS, a special health board
NHS QIS is a special health board. This means that although we don’t treat patients or manage health services directly, we work with organisations that do, to help them improve the care they deliver.
Our vision
An NHS which achieves excellence in the care of every patient, every time.
Our purpose
NHS QIS leads the use of knowledge to promote improvement in the quality of healthcare for the people of Scotland.
Our values
We aim to be an organisation that is:
- engaged - strongly engaged with NHSScotland, other agencies and with patients, carers and the general public
- efficient - using processes that are fit for purpose, targeted on areas where we can have the greatest impact and as streamlined as they can be without loss of rigour
- enterprising - forward thinking, using innovation to take advantage of new opportunities to promote quality and safety and placing ourselves in the forefront of quality improvement in the UK and internationally
- communicating - maintaining effective two-way communication with all our stakeholders and with other organisations that share and can contribute to achievement of our aims
- coherent - consistent in the approaches we adopt to our work and in the advice and guidance that we provide, and
- conceptual and self-critical - clear about how our activities fit together and about why we are tackling them in the ways that we do, learning and applying the lessons of our own and others’ experience.