Health and Social Care in Aberdeenshire
| Update December 2025: The Integration Joint Board approved the Strategic Plan 2025-35 at their meeting on 10th December. Please view the reports on this webpage. See item 5 on the agenda. |
Our next Strategic Plan 2025 - 2035
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.
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.
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.
The consultation ran from 8th September to 26th October 2025 and is now closed.
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 in 2024 here: summary of the engagement feedback.
