Well being and care providers are asking for the general public’s views on the way forward for care in West Lothian.
The Lothian Well being and Care System (LHCS), which is made up of NHS Lothian and the 4 native well being and social care partnerships, is urging folks to assist form healthcare of their area.
The pandemic has pressured a serious re-think throughout all providers and techniques, together with healthcare.
The NHS as a complete is going through sustained pressures and the LHCS desires folks to have their say round the way forward for providers over the following 5 years.
Collectively, the LHCS works to plan, fee, and ship well being and care providers domestically to a inhabitants of practically a million which is projected to develop by eight per cent within the subsequent decade.
Colin Briggs, director of strategic planning, NHS Lothian, mentioned: “We’re all conscious that well being and social care providers are beneath important and sustained strain in the meanwhile. That's the reason the LHCS is setting out its strategic path for the following 5 years.
“Our Lothian Strategic Improvement Framework (LSDF) describes what we’re attempting to attain, now and sooner or later, the challenges we face and the path we need to take over the following 5 years. It additionally lays out what we expect the folks of the Lothians can anticipate from us over that point, a few of which will likely be laborious for all of us.
“Nevertheless, we are able to’t do that in isolation.
“Well being and care belong to us all and we actually need folks to inform us their ideas and concepts, their priorities, and their expectations, and in addition for us to have the ability to work collectively to search out one of the simplest ways ahead.”
By means of a mixture of consultations, query and reply classes and on-line suggestions, NHS Lothian and companions are asking for the general public’s suggestions on the LSDF.
Greater than 400,000 postcards have been touchdown on doormats of households throughout Edinburgh, West Lothian, East Lothian and Midlothian giving particulars of how folks can become involved and share their views. This builds on a profitable preliminary engagement interval throughout April, Could, and June.
Mr Briggs added: “We’ve tried to be as accessible as doable in how we allow folks from throughout our communities to provide us their views.
“We wish our sufferers, their households, our workers and the inhabitants we serve to be as concerned as doable, each now and going ahead.
“We're additionally being candid with our communities by saying that our efficiency and outcomes are usually not what we'd need them to be. We want a brand new path of journey in a post-pandemic world.
“The priorities at present outlined within the LSDF embody shifting care nearer to house, supporting self-care, studying classes from the pandemic, working nearer with companions, bettering our amenities, higher utilising know-how and lowering ready lists.
“Should you suppose we’re stepping into the proper path, or for those who suppose we’re not, we’d actually like to listen to from you. Please become involved and inform us what you suppose the way forward for well being and care ought to seem like.”
Go to NHS Lothian’s web site to provide your suggestions now.
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