How it ensures that mental health services are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) friendly.

Guidance through the Fair for All Agenda, to eliminate and promote equality of opportunity for everyone, is available to help NHS staff understand and meet their responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act, and to support NHS Scotland in implementing the Gender Equality Scheme Duty, which assesses progress in achieving gender equality outcomes and provides information and good practice examples of LGBT people using NHS services.
Through this overarching agenda, Fair for All “ LGBT has been mainstreamed within NHS Health Scotland, and is determining the focus to deliver accessible, high quality and sensitive services which fully meet the needs of Scotland''s LGBT population.
From July 2010, the Scottish Government has been funding the LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing to run the Demonstration Project, to provide learning and create the foundations for lasting and sustainable cultural change in relation to responding to the needs of LGBT people who experience mental health problems. The project is designed to help us learn how best to support LGBT people across Scotland, it is being guided by a Lothian based advisory group, with a wide ranging membership of stakeholders, such as NHS Lothian, Choose Life and see me, to inform its development and to encourage engagement across health, social care and equality services, communities and organisations. The projects aims to: increase access to health care and support services for LGBT people; tackle the mental health risk factors affecting LGBT people; work to promote resilience and strengthen the capacity of the LGBT community, promote the mental health and wellbeing of individuals, and provide specialist mental health input for LGBT people experiencing mental health problems.