PARTNER UPDATE - NHS HIGHLAND
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Minutes:
The Localities Manager, NHS Highland provided the Group with a verbal update on the following:
· Integration – Ground level staff are enthusiastic, which will have a positive impact on creating a new joint working from the ground up.
· Technology enabled care funding – A pilot scheme on Bute for remote health monitoring has now turned into a three year national project.
· Delayed Discharge – Additional funding is now in place which will help to enable the new national target of discharging a medically fit patient to the appropriate resource within two weeks.
· Integrated Care Fund – 13 bids currently in with an expectation of in excess of 20 bids by the closing date.
· Bute and Cowal Highland Games - Extra NHS resources are in place for both events.
· Winter planning process is already underway.
· A review on out of hours health service access is currently taking place, with a report on findings expected to go back to the Health Minister in September.
Decision:
The Group noted the verbal update.
(Ref: Verbal update by NHS Highland dated 11 August 2015,
submitted)
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