Our vision is for a Scotland where people with long term conditions enjoy, not endure, full and positive lives - lives free from discrimination and supported by high quality services. We work towards this vision by:
- Campaigning and influencing policy
- Supporting and improving practice
- Supporting voluntary and community organisations
- Tackling health inequalities.
LTCAS works with voluntary organisations across Scotland. This helps us to reach out to over 2 million people living with long term conditions, their families and unpaid carers. Our overall aim is to help these voices be heard.
LTCAS is led by its members and this allows us to harness their expertise. A key part of this is gathering people’s stories of their experience of living with and managing their conditions. This in turn provides LTCAS with a focus for influencing a shared policy and practice agenda.
The board and senior staff team work closely with a range of partners within the Scottish Government. In particular, LTCAS is represented on the Long Term Conditions, Mental Health, Better Together and Mutuality, Equalities and Human Rights boards. All of these boards are linked into a broad range of key policy work streams across the NHS and to a lesser extent, social care. |
