Integration of Adult Health and Social Care

As an amendment to motion S4M-05838 in the name of Alex Neil (Integration of Adult Health and Social Care), leave out from "joint" to end and insert “strengthened accountability for local service delivery, with a strong role for local authorities; notes the importance of truly integrated budgets that avoid conflict between local authorities and NHS boards as well as a strong role for clinicians and care professionals along with the third and independent sectors in the planning and delivery of person-centred services; notes with concern both the increases in care charges and the postcode lottery in charging experienced across Scotland as local authorities are forced to react to Scottish Government cuts to their budgets, and calls on the Scottish Government to use the integration of health and social care to create a truly integrated health and social care service that improves care across Scotland."