Asked by: Lord Swire (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made on integrating social care and the NHS.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Health and Care Act 2022 established integrated care systems, reforming how health and adult social care work together by putting partnership at the heart of planning. The Government has published guidance for integrated care partnerships (ICPs), on the statutory requirement for each ICP to publish an Integrated Care Strategy to address the health, social care, and public health needs of their system. All ICPs have now published their integrated care strategies.
The integration of health and social care is often best achieved through collaboration across smaller geographies within integrated care systems called places. Since the Health and Care Act 2022, we have seen good progress in the development of place-based arrangements to integrate health and social care. In October 2023, we published our Shared Outcomes Toolkit designed to help place-based partnerships develop shared outcomes as a powerful means of promoting integrated working and joined up care. We also issued a call for evidence as part of our review of Section 75 of the NHS Act 2006, which permits local authorities and National Health Service bodies to pool budgets, enabling joint commissioning and the commissioning of integrated services. The findings of this review will be shared in due course.
Correspondence Feb. 28 2024
Committee: Health, Social Care and Sport CommitteeFound: Committees Stage 1 report on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill Letter from the Minister for Social
Jan. 05 2024
Source Page: NHS Resilience meeting Jan 6 2023: FOI releaseFound: Minister • John Swinney – Deputy First Minister • Humza Yousaf – Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social
Asked by: Baillie, Jackie (Scottish Labour - Dumbarton)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that funding is provided to hospices to allow consistency with the NHS Agenda for Change pay awards.
Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
A real terms uplift to health funding has been prioritised in the opening Budget position for 2024-25. We have invested £2 billion in the 2024-25 budget for social care and integration, which is an increase of over £1 billion compared to 2021-22. This delivers on our Programme for Government commitment to increase social care spending by 25% (£840 million) over this Parliament, two years ahead of our original target.
Despite this significant investment the financial climate remains extremely challenging, and we are working with partners to understand and address the challenges, within the context of a finite budget.
May. 01 2024
Source Page: A Warm Scots Future Fairer Scotland Duty SummaryFound: of displaced people from Ukraine, in alignment with the New Scots refugee integration strategy.
Oral Evidence May. 07 2024
Inquiry: Men's healthFound: Prevention in Health and Social Care Consideration of the Government Response to the Healthy Places
Feb. 16 2024
Source Page: Adult personal social services: specific revenue funding and grant allocations - 2023 to 2024Found: Adult personal social services: specific revenue funding and grant allocations - 2023 to 2024
Jan. 09 2024
Source Page: Local council responses to plans to introduce a National Care Service: FOI releaseFound: -ayrshire.gov.uk DR/DW Kevin Stewart MSP Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social
Jan. 26 2024
Source Page: National Care Service: Justice Social Work researchFound: National Care Service: Justice Social Work research
Asked by:
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of (a) the current supply of accessible and adapted housing and (b) whether current capacity meets demand.
Answered by McLennan, Paul - Minister for Housing
It is the statutory responsibility of local authorities through their Local Housing Strategy (LHS) and Development Plan to determine the appropriate housing required in their area, informed by a Housing Need and Demand Assessment. This includes consideration of existing housing provision and current and future requirements.
Where local authorities identify a strategic requirement for a particular type of home, including wheelchair accessible housing, projects to support delivery of these homes are expected to be included in Local Authority Strategic Housing Investment Plans for delivery through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme.
Since the integration of health and social care, Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) are responsible for the planning and delivery of adaptations using delegated budgets. IJBs are also responsible for reviewing and developing services to improve outcomes for people who require adaptations.