Community Care
Supporting people to live well for longer in their community
People in Scotland are living longer than ever before. The Community Care team works with health and social care services to enable more people to live well in their community for longer.
Current community care programmes
Click on the programme name to find out more about the programme including how to get involved in improvement activities.
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Supporting health boards and health and social care partnerships provide an integrated frailty service. |
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Hospital at Home is a short-term, targeted intervention that provides a level of acute hospital care in an individual’s own home that is equivalent to that provided within a hospital. |
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A person-centred approach to help people to plan for their future. |
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Supporting improvement in hospital settings and specialist dementia units, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support, care co-ordination in the community and palliative and end of life care. |
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| Access QI | Working with NHS boards to use quality improvement to sustainably and affordably improve waiting times. |
Previous community care programmes
You can find out more and continue to access the resources from our previous programmes.
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Palliative care and end of life care involves providing good care to people with life limiting conditions, or whose health is in irreversible decline. |
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| The programme ran from March 2016 to March 2019. It’s aim was to support seven health and social care organisations (HSCOs) across Scotland to develop and test models of neighbourhood care. |
Contact us
If you would like more information, please contact us at his.frailty@nhs.scot.