Sixteen refurbished apartments in Sighthill are helping people to build meaningful lives at home following time spent at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Originally a sheltered housing complex, a building in the Calders has been transformed by the City of Edinburgh Council to provide high-quality places to stay. The Edinburgh Health [...]
Members of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB) have approved plans to accelerate approaches to care for people at home and in a homely setting. Designed to reduce the number of people being delayed leaving hospital and improve the care patients receive in their own community, Edinburgh’s ‘home first’ [...]
Members of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB) have announced plans to expand GP services in the south east of the city. The local population is expected to increase over the next five years, with around 200 homes a year planned for the Gilmerton area, and the EIJB will [...]
Edinburgh’s health and social care budget is expected to break even following positive progress by the city’s Integration Joint Board (EIJB) and its partners. At a Board meeting today (Tuesday 22 October), members of the EIJB reported how the 2019/20 budget gap for health and social care services has [...]