Royal Edinburgh Hospital Patients Council (SCIO)

Constitutional objectives

Purposes 4 The organisation's over-arching purpose is to provide independent collective advocacy support to people with lived experience of mental health and wellbeing issues, as well as those affecting other vulnerable and marginalised groups in institutional and community settings, via: 4.1 The advancement of human rights and the improvement in quality of services, care and treatment by discussion, negotiation and holding service-providers to account. This to be achieved by facilitating regular group advocacy meetings and human rights awareness-raising meetings throughout the hospital and the community and then representing these views to relevant groups of decision-makers at various fora. 4.2 Promotion of dignity, autonomy, non-discrimination/equality, inclusion and compassion by enabling people with lived experience to raise their issues with decision-makers, to make their own decisions and doing so on people's behalf, where necessary. 4.3 The advancement of citizenship, citizen advocacy and community inclusion, and the progressive realisation of economic, social and cultural rights of people with lived experience, through advocacy partnership and the promotion of their own collective self-advocacy. 4.4. Advancement of education, research and remedies by promoting the awareness and full recognition of the human rights of people of lived experience.