Health and Social Care in Aberdeenshire

Our next Strategic Plan 2025 - 2035 - we'd like to hear from you!

The Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership (AHSCP) has developed a draft Strategic Plan for 2025–2035, setting out our vision, priorities, and ambitions for the next ten years and we would like to know what you think!.

We know that currently, demand for the services we deliver is increasing and that how we deliver those services is changing. We have built this plan based on the need for change and to do that we intend to focus on two main priorities:

1. Prevention and early intervention - how we will support you and our communities, to stay healthy for longer.

2. Health and social care services – ensuring we are supporting those with the greatest need in our communities.

So, do you think we have the right priorities? Or do you think we should focus on something else?

Our services are changing, and we need you to be part of that change. So, please let us know what you think by completing the short survey further below. It should take around 5 minutes to complete.

You can read the full plan and a summary version (plan on a page). The links are also in the right menu of this page.

Now the small print... the consultation will run from 8th September to 26th October 2025.

Other formats of the survey and Draft Strategic Plan are available.
A paper copy version of the survey, an Easy Read version of the summary of the Plan and of the survey, are available in the menu on the right of the page. If you would like to give your views by telephone, please phone Erin Wood on 01467 537445 to arrange a suitable time. If you have any queries about alternative formats, please email matt.carle@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Background to the Draft Strategic Plan

Every Health and Social Care Partnership must have a Strategic Plan which provides a roadmap to how decisions about services are going to be made.

As a first step to preparing the Strategic Plan we looked at all of the data available to us about our Aberdeenshire population and undertook a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).

We also spoke to people across the area to get their views about how we might deliver what people need with decreasing resources.

The result of the JSNA and our engagement highlighted that Aberdeenshire has an ageing population with complex needs, spread across a large area with diverse needs including areas of deprivation, all of which means an increasing demand for the services we deliver.

All of this means that how we deliver our services is changing and will continue to change over the next 10 years.

You can read the results of our previous conversations with people here: summary of the engagement feedback.