Policy Lead for Self Management and Health Literacy

Scottish Government

Blythe Robertson is the Policy Lead for Self Management and Health Literacy at the Scottish Government. In this role, he has wide-ranging responsibility for supporting policy and strategy developments related to person-centred care.

He has responsibility for Scotland’s action plan for Health Literacy, Making it Easy, and the Self Management Strategy Gaun Yersel! which was written by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland from the perspective of people living with long term conditions.

A career civil servant, Blythe has worked for more than fifteen years on programmes relating to cross-sector working, information governance, technology strategy, and transformational change.

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