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Parent Links

The Scottish Intensive Care Society
The Scottish Intensive Care Society was founded in January 1991, to co-ordinate and represent the specialty of intensive care in Scotland. Its specific aims are to promote educational, research and audit activities.

Scottish Intensive Care Society Evidenced-Based Medicine Group
The Scottish Intensive Care Society Evidence-Based Medicine Group provides intensive care units in scotland with an evidence based medicine resource.

NHS Information Services Division
ISD Scotland collects, validates, interprets and disseminates epidemiological and management information about the NHS in Scotland.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Healthcare Improvement Scotland coordinates the work of Scotland's clinical effectiveness organisations through the development of a national strategy for improving the quality of patient care.

Scottish Patient Safety Alliance
Adopting a national approach to improving patient safety

National Audits

Musculoskeletal (MSK) audit
Provides data to compliment the work of various hospital time-to-treatment teams by identifying rate-limiting steps for orthopaedic treatment.

Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality (SASM)
The Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality (SASM) is unique in the United Kingdom. It identifies all deaths that occur in hospital under the care of a surgeon, whether an operation has taken place or not.

Scottish ECT Accreditation Network (SEAN)
Over the last six years SEAN has taken a central role in ensuring that there is a continued process of clinical audit and monitoring of all NHS ECT sites in Scotland.

Scottish Renal Registry (SRR)
The Scottish Renal Registry (SRR) is a national registry of patients with renal failure and other renal disorders in Scotland.

Scottish Stroke Care Audit (SSCA)
The Scottish Stroke Care Audit (SSCA) is funded to support the implementation of the many advances in stroke care to achieve improvement in outcomes.

Scottish Trauma Audit Group(STAG)
The Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG) is a multidisciplinary team that undertakes national audits of clinical priority areas.

Other

British Association of Critical Care Nurses
Support personal and professional development and promote the art and science of critical care nursing.

Health Protection Scotland
Health Protection Scotland strengthening and coordinating health protection in Scotland

NHS Education for Scotland
Helps to provide better patient care by providing educational solutions for workforce development.

Royal college of Anaesthetists
Educating, training and setting standards in anaesthetics, critical care and pain management.

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidlines Network (SIGN)
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, SIGN's objective is to improve the quality of health care for patients in Scotland by reducing variation in practice and outcome, through the development and dissemination of national clinical guidelines.