The purpose of Healthcare Improvement Scotland is to enable the people of Scotland to experience the best quality of health and social care. It focuses on the following areas where it believes it can make the most impact. It enables people to make informed decisions about their care and treatment, helping health and social care organisations to redesign and continuously improve services and provide evidence and share knowledge that enables people to get the best out of the services they use and helps services improve. It provides quality assurance that gives people confidence in the services and supports providers to improve and makes the best use of resources to aim to ensure every pound invested in its work adds value to the care people receive.