How the level and standard of the occupational health services provided by the NHSiS compares to those provided in England and Wales and el…

Information on the level and standard of occupational health service provision outwith Scotland is not available. The Scottish Executive's aim is clearly set out in the Occupational Health and Safety Services Strategy Towards a Safer Healthier Workplace published in November 1999, which promoted an exemplar role for the NHSiS. The strategy also set out the minimum standard of service provision expected for staff of the NHSiS and advocated the development of clinical and audit networks to allow benchmarking and to ensure uniformly high standard occupational health throughout Scotland. An Occupational Health and Safety Service Strategy Implementation Group is currently being set up which will be responsible for ensuring the strategy action points are achieved, that includes a system of peer audit review and benchmarking.