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£4.5 million to tackle health and social care pressures
A £4.5 million fund to help reduce waiting times for assessments and delayed discharges in Edinburgh has been approved by the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB).
The fund will support the work of the newly established assessment and review board to help alleviate the most urgent pressures and will also improve business processes.
As part of a wider Health and Social Care Improvement Programme produced by the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, these additional resources will be focused on three priorities: backlog of assessments and reviews, reducing delayed discharges, and the funding of a temporary project team.
Ricky Henderson, chair of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board, said: “This agreement, as well as the report on the wider improvement programme, paints a clear picture of where the service is right now and the immediate steps we need to take.
“For the Partnership to achieve long-term sustainability of health and social care services in the city, the immediate pressures from the backlog of demand, the service capacity limitations and the extreme pressures on acute services from people delayed in hospital must be addressed.
“Our aspiration of providing the right care in the right place at the right time can be realised if we continue to develop a programme to support long-term change in the way these services are delivered.”
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