By David Pearson2020-10-30T06:00:00+00:00
Safe, quality housing is essential to maintain independence: keeping people safe and well at home, enabling as much choice and control in their lives as possible, writes David Pearson.
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The key focus of Integrated Care Systems is the successful combination of parts of the health service with social care. Often, we find ourselves preoccupied with hospital beds and the universal aspiration to prevent the need for their use, wherever possible. In Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, we have 2,000 hospital beds, and 4,000 beds in residential and nursing care. But if we are to truly fulfil our aspirations and those of the people we look after, it’s vital to also focus on the care, support and treatment for those sleeping in over a million beds in Nottinghamshire - the beds in people’s own homes.