Scotland promotes "Hospital at Home" initiative (2)

By allowing people to be treated closer to home, and adopting a more community-based approach, the project will help to improve health and social care, consistently, for older people in all parts of Scotland, which represents the radical change that is needed to improve care across adult health and social care services, and in particular care for older people, according to the Scottish Health Secretary.

The joined up approach is already working well in some areas of Scotland. In Highland, a ground breaking Partnership Agreement was signed in March 2012 to successfully establish a lead agency model in Highland, which means adult health and social care services are managed though a single budget and a single management system, according to the press release.