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Annual Report and Accounts Year Ending 31 March 2025
The Performance Report provides sufficient information to understand the purpose of NHS Orkney, they key risks to the achievement of our objectives and how we have performed during the year 2024/25. Further detailed information is provided in the Accountability Report, the Performance Report and the Financial Statements.
NHS Orkney – Our Behaviour Framework
Our Behaviour Framework sets out clear expectations for how colleagues should act and interact, helping to foster a respectful, inclusive, and values-led culture. The culture the Board wants to create here is one where there is excellence in care, kindness in action, and bravery in change. This framework supports that vision by guiding everyday behaviours...
NHS Orkney Patient Feedback Annual Report 2024-2025
The 2024/25 Patient Feedback Annual Report for NHS Orkney demonstrates our ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality, person-centred care. This report outlines how we have received, responded to, and utilised feedback, complaints, and engagement from patients, carers, and families to drive continuous improvement in our services.
Patient Access Policy
A National Access Policy has been developed to provide a common vision, direction and understanding of how NHS Boards should ensure equitable, safe, clinically effective and efficient access to services for their patients.
NHS Orkney Equal Pay Statement and Pay Gap Report 2025
NHS Orkney is committed to the principles of equality, diversity and human rights in employment. Staff should receive equal pay for the same or broadly similar work, for work rated as equivalent and for work of equal value (regardless of age, disability, ethnicity or race, gender, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, political beliefs, religion...
NHS Orkney Equality and Diversity Monitoring Report 2024-25
NHS Orkney is committed to eliminating discrimination and improving equality of opportunity. This means improving the way we deliver our services and the way we employ our colleagues. We want to be amongst Scotland’s best NHS Boards in our work to address health inequalities and recognised as a welcoming, caring employer. All data contained within...
NHS Orkney Subject Access Request Policy June 2025
Individuals have a right to apply for access to information held by an organisation about themselves and in some cases, information held about other people. This is called a subject access request (SAR). Individuals have the right to obtain: - confirmation that personal information is being held or used by NHS Orkney - access to...
Smoke Free Site Policy
Smoking remains a leading preventable cause of inequalities in health. This policy seeks to support attainment of Scottish Government’s commitment to achieve a Tobacco Free Scotland by 2034.
NHS Orkney Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 Annual Report 2025
Published on 30 April 2025 Annual report of how NHS Orkney has complied with the duties of the Act, and activities undertaken to meet their legislative duties.
Code of Corporate Governance V19 – September 2025
The UK Corporate Governance Code (2018) defines Corporate governance as “The system by which organisation are directed and controlled”. It expands on that statement by adding that “Governance is about what the board does and how it sets the values of the organisation and is to be distinguished from executive director led day-to-day operational management”...