How do the analyses relate to SOAs and the recent SOA Guidance?
The analyses are in the spirit of the 2009 SOA guidance. In particular, they distinguish between “above the line” outcomes suitable for inclusion in SOAs and also provide some “below the line” information for use in community planning partners’ own planning, performance management and reporting processes. The analyses are not, however, specifically about “below the line” performance management within community planning partner organisations, for example, the HEAT targets for NHS boards. The Equally Well implementation plan indicates that further work will be required to identify shorter-term service delivery outcomes to form the basis of performance management of progress towards achieving the intermediate outcomes. What happens next? Scottish Government plans more work in 2009: to explore how HEAT can better reflect NHS action to reduce health inequalities, to identify local data or proxy data to measure progress against the long-term health inequalities outcomes and analyse further t
