First part of £100m transformation of health and social care in Wales announced
Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething, has announced the first project
to be backed by the £100m Transformation Fund, to develop new
models of health and social care. Developed by the Cardiff
and Vale Regional Partnership Board, the Me, My Home, My
Community project integrates health and social care to bring
care closer to home. It will receive nearly £7m over
two years from the Transformation Fund to change, develop and join
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Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething, has announced the first
project to be backed by the £100m Transformation Fund, to develop
new models of health and social care.
Developed by the Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board,
the Me, My Home, My Community project integrates health
and social care to bring care closer to home.
It will receive nearly £7m over two years from the Transformation
Fund to change, develop and join up health and social care
services, with more emphasis on preventing illness, and shifting
services out of hospital to homes and communities.
The Transformation Fund has been created to support key actions
from the Welsh Government’s long term plan for health and social
care, A Healthier Wales.
Me, My Home, My Community is based on partnership working
between all parts of the NHS, local authority services, charities
and the voluntary sector to ensure individuals and families get
the support they need closer to home, at the right time. It aims
to maximise independence, which research has shown is the outcome
that matters most to people.
The project is informed by a similar initiative developed in
Canterbury, New Zealand and has a number of key elements which
will improve how health and social services work together:
During a visit to Redlands Surgery in Penarth today (Thursday 18
October), Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething met members of the Cardiff
and Vale team and some of the team visiting from New Zealand to
see the development of the project.
Mr Gething said: “With an increase in life expectancy and our
continued public health challenges, our health and social care
services will continue to face increasing pressures. This is why,
in our long term plan for health and social care, we have set out
the need to truly transform the way we deliver care to ensure it
is sustainable in the future.
This will require better integration of health and social
services to reduce reliance on hospitals and deliver care closer
to home. The Transformation Fund will be used to fund a small
number of projects which have the most impact in developing and
delivering new models of care, and which have potential to scale
up so they can be used across Wales.
I am very pleased to announce the first project to be backed by
the Fund. The Cardiff and Vale team have a clear vision of how to
deliver better care for patients and reduce pressure on GPs and
hospitals, and I look forward to seeing this and other new models
developed and rolled-out quickly.”
Cardiff Council’s Cabinet Member for Social Care, Health and
Wellbeing, and Chair of the Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership
Board, Cllr Susan Elsmore, said: “This is a tremendous
opportunity to fundamentally realign health and social care, not
only in the region, but also across the country, in order to
deliver the priorities set out by Welsh Government in its
Healthier Wales strategy.
“Our programme has families and individuals at its heart. By
having this population focus, local authorities and the NHS can
work together to deliver preventative services, at a local level,
which maintain independence and produce the outcomes people are
looking for.
“There has been a lot of hard work undertaken by the members of
the Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board to continually
improve health and social care. Now is the time to build on this
work and place the principles of the new national policy at the
forefront of our services."
Notes
Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething will be
visiting Redlands Surgery, Redlands Road, Penarth CF64
3WX at 12.30pm on Thursday, 18 October to
announce the first project to be awarded funding from the
Transformation Fund.
Members of the Me, My Home, My Community team and the
Canterbury team will be attending along with the Health Secretary
and will be available for interview.
The following organisations and representatives form the Cardiff
and Vale Regional Partnership Board:
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