Extra Social Care funding means better help at home for people in Devon
January 5, 2012 10:30 AM
An extra £2,243, 802 for social care in Devon will mean people can leave hospital earlier and receive better care at home.
This comes from an extra £150m announced by the Coalition Government this week to be spent on shortening hospital stays across the country during the busy winter period.
Thanks to the Liberal Democrats, the cash can be used to access various preventative services such as better home care support, crisis response teams and specialist equipment for people in Devon.
This is on top of the £648m already given to Primary Care Trusts this financial year to support social care services.
Commenting, North Devon's MP, Nick Harvey said:
"At this time of year it is particularly important to do everything we can to ensure people are cared for at home in a safe and familiar environment, with their family and friends close by. The benefits are on all sides - patients get to go home with the suppor they and their families need, and hospital beds are freed up."
"This money will help cut the delays in getting the equipment and adaptations that people can need to enable them to live independently at home - saving them from an unnecessary stay in hospital or going into residential care."
"The Coalition is already providing an extra £7.2bn in social care funding over the next four years. This extra cash for Devon further shows how the Liberal Democrats recognise that we all prefer to be out of hospital, receiving care in our own home."
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