A strategic plan has been launched for future priorities for health and care delivery in South Lanarkshire.
South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership has captured shared ambitions of local communities and drafted a Strategic Commissioning Plan 2022-2025 which sets out the priorities for health and care delivery.
The document has been developed with and to meet the ambitions of local communities and recognises the ongoing dedication of health and social care staff as well as partners.
The plan identifies three key priorities which will shape the delivery of health and social care over the next three years.
The key elements have been devised with empathy, empowerment and plans to elevate.
Director of Health and Social Care, Soumen Sengupta, said: “The Plan is based on empathy, aspires to empower and has an ambition to elevate.
“In terms of empathy, we’ve taken time to listen and understand when devising the document. Hard-won lessons and real-life experience of the last two years have been harnessed to frame this approach. We know – and we get – recent times have been exceptionally difficult.
“The Plan sets out how we will continue to support our communities and our people, whilst we keep moving forward and creating stability by doing things differently.
“We’ll build on what’s strong, not what’s wrong or simply falling back to what we did before.”
Mr Sengupta continued: “The Plan is also designed to empower. The quality of our relationships is fundamental.
“We plan to empower staff and partners to work together – working across boundaries to strengthen and develop approaches – so we can collectively flourish.
“The Plan is rooted in an ambition to elevate. Recent times have shown our Partnership can innovate at a meteoric pace. In conversations to shape our Plan we were challenged to build on that – and cast off nostalgia for traditional models of care. Our ambition is to meet these aspirations with bold and stellar solutions.”
Lesley McDonald, Integration Joint Board Chair, said: “Over and above these three simple elements, a constant of our future directions is the continued expertise, compassion and focus of our staff and partners supporting the health and wellbeing of people in South Lanarkshire.
“We are also focussed on ensuring our support and services meet the needs of all diverse groups and communities – fairly.”
The document pledges to ensure that early intervention, prevention and addressing inequalities are more prominent across all service areas.
It aims to increase a greater variety of activities and supports to address mental health and addictions.
It also hopes to sustain and improve day-to-day health and social care services, ensuring all services are working at their best and are accessible to communities.
The Plan, which was approved in March by South Lanarkshire's Integration Joint Board was informed by rich evidence and insights from a range of sources, including an in depth public engagement process.
The finalised document is now available to members of the public in hard copy and digital format as well as a two minute clip summarising it.
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