As has been set out, that represented increased investment of £133 million from 2024-25, including additional funding to provide for prior pay deals, as well as a range of funding to support vital front-line services. NHS Highland’s funding for 2025-26 will support delivery of commitments such as providing direct access to front-door frailty services at its acute site, improving community capacity and fully delivering the 2025-26 discharge without delay programme principles in all in-patient sites, ensuring timely discharge planning, the full use of multidisciplinary teams and the expansion of hospital at home services.