There are too many occasions in which the hospital and the local social work department are not on the same page; when I was a councillor in North Lanarkshire I had to intervene on a number of occasions to resolve situations in which a patient was ready to come out of hospital but could not go home because support had not yet been supplied. On those occasions, I had to contact the social work department and the hospital in order to ensure that the patient’s needs were being met.