Jul. 10 2024

Found: Health and social care - integration authority guidance: consultation analysis

Jul. 10 2024

Found: Health and social care - integration authority guidance: consultation analysis

Sep. 05 2024

Found: Health and social care integration authority planning and performance report: FOI release

Jul. 10 2024

Found: Health and social care - annual performance reports: statutory guidance

Jul. 10 2024

Found: Health and social care - annual performance reports: statutory guidance

Jul. 10 2024

Found: Health and social care - strategic plans: statutory guidance

S6W-28790

Asked by: White, Tess (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - North East Scotland)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report, Integration Joint Boards' Finance and performance 2024, published by the Accounts Commission in July 2024, which, among other conclusions, found that "uncertainty around the direction of the plans for a National Care Service" has contributed to the "difficult context for planning and delivering effective services".

Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport

While the Accounts Commission’s recommendations are aimed at Integration Joint Boards, the Scottish Government is committed to working with the health and social care sector to support improvement. We have invested a record £19.5 billion in health and social care in 2024-25, including over £2 billion for social care and integration.

The National Care Service (NCS) Bill is currently at Stage 2 and it is our intention for the NCS to be established before the end of this parliamentary term. In June we shared our package of government stage 2 amendments for the Bill with Parliament. Scottish Government officials have been in discussion with Integration Joint Board representatives, including through the tripartite NCS discussions and the ongoing NCS Key Stakeholder Reference Group.

The voices of people who are service users are key in these changes and, as we have been clear from the outset, we will be working closely with them as the plans develop.

S6W-28791

Asked by: White, Tess (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - North East Scotland)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the report, Integration Joint Boards' Finance and performance 2024, published by the Accounts Commission in July 2024, whether it will provide details of the four outstanding national integration performance indicators that have not been finalised for reporting, and when it anticipates that this process will be concluded.

Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport

The Scottish Government acknowledges the importance of transparent and comprehensive reporting on integration performance indicators as highlighted in the Accounts Commission’s report, Integration Joint Boards' Finance and performance 2024. The four national performance indicators that have not been finalised for reporting are:

• Indicator 10: Percentage of staff who say they would recommend their workplace as a good place to work.
• Indicator 21: Percentage of people admitted to hospital from home during the year, who are discharged to a care home.
• Indicator 22: Percentage of people who are discharged from hospital within 72 hours of being ready.
• Indicator 23: Expenditure on end of life care.

These indicators are not currently reported on because there is not yet a nationally agreed definition or the necessary national data is either unavailable or not sufficiently robust.

Robust data and digital infrastructure will be a key enabler of both our Data Strategy and the National Care Service. The Scottish Government continues to identify and invest in innovative digital and data solutions to support improvements in social care, and integrated care, such as the integrated social care and health record.

Work is ongoing to develop the integrated social care and health record, including extensive co-design as part of the wider NCS programme, with those who will use the record – such as individuals in receipt of care and frontline staff – at the centre of that design.

Jul. 05 2024

Found: New Scots Refugee Integration Delivery Project: funded projects analysis