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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 V18 – Approved 24 April 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”...
Whistleblowing Standards Annual Report 2024-25
This is NHS Orkney’s fourth annual Whistleblowing Standards Report since the national standards came into force on 1 April 2021 and covers the reporting period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
NHS Orkney Corporate Strategy 2024-2028 Our Year 2 -2025/26 priorities – Delivering what matters to our community
Last year we launched our new five-year strategy (2024-2028), setting out the organisation’s ambition for the future and our promise to our community. We have now published our Year 2 (2025/26) priorities, after a three-month engagement period where patients, our community and staff were asked: what matters most to you, which we have listened to...
NHS Orkney Model Publication Scheme November 2024
Guide to Information available through The Model Publication Scheme