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Please find information below about the Together We Care Strategy engagement, that was launched on Friday. Information about how the strategy will be developed, links to the survey and the other ways people can get involved are in the text and links below. 
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Building a brighter future for health and care 2022-2027NHS Highland is developing a plan – Together We Care. This plan (or strategy) will be used to shape our approach over the next five years towards developing a sustainable and high-quality health care service by 2027.

We know the demand on our health and social care service is increasing and this is likely to continue. We need to make sure that our services can cope with this, now and in the future and are inviting you to help write this plan with us.

We want to pull together ideas from Highland’s population, workforce, and partners so that the strategy is written by the people of the Highlands, for the people of the Highlands.

Over the next few months, we will be reaching out and asking you to engage with us in lots of different ways. Executive members of the board will be visiting local communities and NHS services across NHS Highland to listen to your thoughts and ideas

You can also share your ideas and tell us what is important to you by completing an online survey at https://forms.office.com/r/519bjRi4Sb. Paper copies and alternative formats of the survey are available on request, by emailing us at  [email protected] or writing to us Freepost RUAK-JGSH-TUUL, Clinical Governance Team, NHS Highland, Together We Care, Assynt House, NHS Highland, IV2 3BW.

We will keep everyone informed of where we will be and what people are telling us, so please keep your ears open to local radio, and your eyes on the local press and social media; they will be letting you know how the plan is progressing.

Follow us on our social media pages (Facebook / Twitter: @NHSHighland; Instagram: nhs_highland) to keep up to date or visit our website here.

We need you to talk to us now; without your input, ideas, and thoughts, we cannot create the Together We Care strategy.

Want to know more or to get involved? Please write to us at the freepost address above or email us at [email protected].
Kind regards 

Kate MacLennanCommunity Engagement Co-ordinatorCo-òrdanaiche Compairteachadh Coimhearsnachd
NHS Highland
[email protected] | 0778 8872984

Please see message from SSE:

We recently opened our Highland Sustainable Development Fund for applications. 

The closing date for applications is Noon on Wednesday 19 January 2022 and applications should be submitted to my e-mail address ([email protected]).  Awards will be made in the Spring of 2022, and if any group you are working with might be keen to discuss an application with us, we would be happy to arrange that with them.  

I have included the application form and guidance information and there is more information regarding our funds on our website (https://www.sserenewables.com/communities/sustainable-development-fund/).  This round of the fund, which is worth £1 million, has a focus on supporting the net zero ambitions of the region.  There is a minimum application value of £30k, and the fund is to be used to provide support for strategic projects in the Highland region.  Any successful application must meet one or more of the following outcomes: 

• Creating opportunities:  Create opportunities for education and employment through activities that develop skills and improve an individual’s chance of entering the workplace.
• Empowering communities: Empower communities to become more resilient through measures which demonstrate long-term social, environmental or economic improvements. 
• Sustainable places: Stimulate meaningful regeneration to improve or enhance local infrastructure, landscape, biodiversity or heritage and make a lasting difference to the places we live, work and visit.

Any Community Council that would like to discuss the fund direct with us, please don’t hesitate to send them my details (I’ve included them below for ease!).

Thanks,

Marianne

We had a meeting with SSE and their contractor this morning and have made them aware of all of the issues that require to be addressed particularly in regard to Traffic Management for the job. A further meeting is planned for Friday and potentially also at some point next week and we will update you on the proposals at a future date.

Proposed cable installation work will be commencing on Monday 22^nd Nov on Dores Rd in the vicinity of the electricity sub-station. This will not impact on the SDR or Torbreck Rd.

As requested The Contractor will be installing a temporary 20mph speed limit and signage on the Torbreck Rd.

John Taylor (Roads and Transport)