Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 10 March 2011
10 Mar 2011 · S3 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Scottish Executive Question Time
Social Care (Parkinson’s Disease)
General Questions
The integration of health care and social care is a key issue for people who live with conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. We are tackling that in several ways. In the next financial year, we will invest £2 million to support local partnerships with the integration agenda. We have set up a £70 million change fund to increase communities’ capacity to support people through partnerships between health care, social care and the third sector. Self-directed support has great potential to help people to integrate all the services that they need. That approach, of course, applies to people with Parkinson’s disease.
In the same item of business
Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab)
Lab
2. To ask the Scottish Executive how plans to integrate social care into the national health service will affect people with Parkinson’s disease. (S3O-13225)
The Minister for Public Health and Sport (Shona Robison)
SNP
The integration of health care and social care is a key issue for people who live with conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. We are tackling that in severa...
Marlyn Glen
Lab
Parkinson’s UK has long called for better links between health care and social care. If full integration is not planned, that will mean lead commissioning wi...
Shona Robison
SNP
The lead agency model is one model for fully integrating health care and social care, in which the council commissions the NHS to deliver social care under o...