HEALTH chiefs in East Lancashire are hoping a £660,000 handout will help cut delays and improve services during the busy winter months. Bosses say £328,000 will be spent on avoiding delays in discharges and joint health and social service initiatives, while acute services will receive the remaining £172,000.
A further £160,000 will be allocated to additional intensive care in Blackburn and Burnley.
Specific schemes which have received cash injections include:
£77,000 for extra nursing support in the community throughout the area to help people in their own homes or to support some people in residential and nursing homes.
£67,000 to give additional support for diagnostic services such as radiotherapy and pathology, and paramedical services, including pharmacy and physiotherapy, to prevent delays in discharging people from hospitals throughout East Lancashire.
£75,000 to extend the hospital at home scheme to support people in their own homes in the Blackburn and Hyndburn areas.
David Peat, East Lancashire Health Authority chief executive, said: "While this was less than many other health authorities had received, we must accept that there are other areas who are experiencing greater problems in managing discharges, waiting lists and winter pressures than we are in East Lancashire."
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