Angus Health and Social Care Partnership looks to the future
MONDAY, 26 JUNE, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Angus Health and Social Care Partnership looks to the future
A review into inpatient care services aims to ensure that future inpatient facilities and models of care meet the changing health care needs of the people of Angus.
The review was approved by the Angus Integration Joint Board in December last year and supports the aims of the Partnership’s Strategic Plan for the development and delivery of community-based health and social care services across the region based on the Enhanced Community Support (ECS) model of care.
ECS was introduced in South Angus in 2015 and involves a variety of professionals including GPs, district nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and physiotherapists, pharmacists, specialist hospital doctors and voluntary and third sector colleagues working together as a single team to support individual patients.
The team provides anticipatory care and support in patients’ own homes and, where possible, avoids hospital admissions and allows people to live independently for as long as possible. Feedback from patients and families that have benefited from the model has been very positive.
Launching the review, Gail Smith, Head of Community Health and Care Services for Angus Health and Social Care Partnership said, “We want to ensure that the people of Angus receive the highest quality of care in a safe, person-centred, consistent and efficient manner. This review will allow us to gather information and examine our current resources and how they are being used and make sure that our services are configured in the right way to meet the future care needs of our local population.
“We need to carry out this review because we face a number of challenges in delivering sustainable services. Demand for our services is growing as people live longer with multiple and complex care needs, there are national shortages of health care staff which we must plan for, the facilities we deliver our services from must be able to support the delivery of modern health care and of course we must ensure that we are getting best value for our financial resources.
“The review will be clinically-focused, putting patients and their needs at the centre of the process. We have convened a programme team consisting of a range of stakeholders with wide-ranging knowledge and experience of inpatient care services. They will firstly undertake a comprehensive review of inpatient services in Angus and then prepare an outline business case with options for change by the end of the year.
“We will be involving the public, our staff and representatives from our locality groups throughout the review to ensure that services are built in partnership as we aim to deliver the best possible health care outcomes for the people of Angus.”
Contact:
Gaynyr Dickson
NHS Tayside Communications
01382 740716
