I’ve recently had the honour and responsibility of being appointed Interim Chief Officer for the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board, to lead the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership.
As one of my first priorities I want to reach out to the great organisations we work with to make Edinburgh a better place to care and be cared for. I know that the work you do to support our communities is so important to achieving that goal. As some of you already know, I started my career in the third sector and experienced first-hand how many people and their carers rely heavily on community services to stay safe, independent and healthy.
Without a third and community sector I know that people would be more socially isolated, would not be as connected with their community, may be unable to stay in their own homes or just may not cope with life.
You may be aware that we have launched an improvement plan for the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership in response to recent inspections. As part of our plan, prevention and early intervention is one of our priorities in year 1. We therefore want to build on the work of our Community Mobilisation programme and the Edinburgh Wellbeing Pact and develop our early intervention strategy. Working with organisations across Edinburgh will be crucial to success and we are building on what we have and already getting started.
You will hear more soon, if you haven’t already but just wanted you to be aware of our direction. I am very much looking forward to working with you in my new role.
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