It has been announced that Torbay Care Trust has been sucessful in its bid to participate in a Department of Health programme for integrated health and social care.
There are 16 Integrated Care Pilot schemes nationwide and the programme for Torbay will focus upon care for the elderly. The aim is to provide a more personalised delivery of services to the needs of elderly patients. Partner organisations will include those across primary, secondary, social care and mental health services.
Torbay Care Trust fought off considerable competition throughout the rigorous assessment process to secure the programme which began on 1 April 2009 and will run for two years.
Torbay MP, Adrian Sanders commented: "This is great news for Torbay Care Trust and the Bay's older residents. The pilot programme has a real opportunity to improve the integration of local health services."
"This should ease pressure on local healthcare staff and resources in the long term, as well as making patient care increasingly tailored to individual patient needs."
Phil Hope, the Care Minister said: "The Integrated Care Pilots programme aims to test a number of diverse models, focusing on innovation and on delivering an improvement in outcomes, quality and service user satisfaction."
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