Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 22 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what support has been made available to (a) NHS boards, (b) health and social care partnerships and (c) other bodies involved in delivering rehabilitation services, to ensure the successful implementation of the strategy set out in the document, Rehabilitation and Recovery: A Once for Scotland Person-Centred Approach to Rehabilitation in a Post-COVID Era.
To support practitioners in applying the Six Principles of Good Rehabilitation, Scottish Government has developed a self-assessment tool in partnership with the National Rehabilitation Network. This tool was issued to all 14 health boards in September 2024, to be used as a local benchmarking assessment in line with local rehabilitation strategies, for monitoring and evaluation purposes as well as improvements in patients care.
The data collected through the self-assessment will be used to demonstrate the impact of rehabilitation services across health and social care services.
Since the strategy was published Scottish Government has also awarded funding to support the delivery of the Once for Scotland Approach. This includes £526,650 to the Care Inspectorate to enable them to scale up their Care About Physical Activity Programme and £250,000 to Thistle Foundation to support rehabilitation teams to adopt person-centred rehabilitation.