Introduction

The Centre for Sustainable Delivery (CfSD) is uniquely positioned within NHS Scotland as a national, clinically led delivery unit that bridges the gap between government policies and frontline healthcare.

We play a key role in the redesign and reform of NHS Scotland Healthcare services ensuring
alignment to a number of commitments set out within Sottish Governments Programme for
Government (PfG) and NHS Scotland Operational Improvement Plan.

The purpose of the Centre for Sustainable Delivery is to:

• Design and scale system-wide solutions that tackle NHS Scotland’s biggest health
  challenges: quickly, equitably and sustainably.
• Provide the agility and authority to coordinate national innovations, sustainability initiatives
  and to ensure that proven technologies and models are adopted across NHS Scotland.
• Deliver national improvement in care across NHS Scotland through the implementation of
  optimal care pathways, sustainable improvements in service delivery, and the sharing of best
  practice.
• Drive redesign and transformation through collaboration and partnership working –
  developing and maintaining networks of clinicians and senior leaders across specialities and
  settings.
• Undertake research and publish evidence based learning to establish the CfSD as an
  internationally recognised unit for supporting system change.
• Assess, monitor and redesign through data analysis, by using national and local data to
  inform system understanding, prioritisation and programme design to optimally achieve key
  objectives.
• Support the NHS Scotland Care and Wellbeing Portfolio by reducing inequalities, improving
  access, and delivering better value for public investment.
• Utilise a clinical leadership approach to ensure equality and quality of care by understanding
  and reducing unwarranted variation, increasing reliability and consistency of care.