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£11m for projects to transform healthcare in north Wales
The Welsh Government is investing £11 million in projects to transform the way health and social care services are delivered in north Wales.
Led by the North Wales Regional Partnership Board, the projects are the latest to receive funding from the Welsh Government’s £100 million Transformation Fund. The fund has been created to support the scale up of new models of seamless health and social care as part of the Welsh Government’s long term plan for health and social care, A Healthier Wales.
£2.32 million will go to the project Mental Health Crisis Care, which will provide urgent metal health support for those in crisis. This includes placing mental health practitioners with ambulance crews and in police control rooms and developing alternatives to hospital admission such as crisis cafes, safe havens and strengthened home treatment services.
£6 million will go towards the Community Service Transformation project, which will deliver care earlier and closer to people’s homes by developing community networks, working with the third sector to support well being services, promoting inclusion and participation and co ordinating social prescription.
The third project is for early intervention and support for children and young people, which will receive £3 million. Through earlier intervention from new multidisciplinary teams, this project aims to reduce the number of children in permanent full time care, reduce time in care and reduction of family breakdowns. This will bring benefits to children and families and reduce the burden on health and social services.
Welsh Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething said: "As our population gets older our health and social care services will face even greater and more complex demand. To meet that demand and ensure our health and social services are fit for the future, we need to transform the way we deliver health and care, across the whole of Wales.
"This will require new ways of working and bringing different services together, for example to deliver services closer to home and reduce pressure on hospitals. A Healthier Wales sets out how can achieve this and our Transformation Fund will help to achieve that vision by funding innovative projects that have potential to scale up and be used across Wales."
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