Headway UK’s interim Chief Executive, Luke Griggs, has commented on the Adult Social Care Discharge Fund announced in the government’s publication, ‘Our Plan for Patients’.
The £500m fund aims to support discharge from hospital into the community and strengthen the social care workforce.
Luke said: “While all additional funding for social care is welcome, we need to ensure that it is targeted to meet people’s specific needs.
“People with specialist care and support needs, such as individuals with brain injuries, are often overlooked, particularly as their long-term care needs often become apparent only after hospital discharge and away from a healthcare environment.
“Accurate assessment of needs by specialist clinicians and therapists both immediately after brain injury and again in the subsequent weeks and months is essential to brain injury survivors’ long-term rehabilitation – and helps to prevent costly rehospitalisations and additional interventions further down the line.
“We know that many brain injury survivors face great disparities in care provision depending on where they live. We would like to see greater detail on how this fund will support specific needs and improve the lives of brain injury survivors and their families.”
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