Rehabilitation - FOI Response Register

1. Name of healthcare system

Physiotherapy

2.   Your name

Gillian Ironside

3.   Your email address

shet.physiotherapy@nhs.scot

4.   Your FOI reference

2024-192

5.   Does your system have measures in place to monitor provision of community rehabilitation services to patients?

Yes

6.   What is being measured in relation to the delivery of community rehabilitation?

Waiting times, numbers waiting, number of treatments

7.   Are you in the process of establishing measures to monitor the provision of community rehabilitation services to patients?

No

8.   Are you committed to establishing measures in the future?

Already in place

9.   When are you planning on committing to establishing measures?

Already in place

10.   In the last 12 months, have there been cuts to any resources allocated to support the provision of community rehabilitation?

No

11.  What funding and/or services have been cut?

N/A

12.  Are there plans to cut resources to support the provision of community rehabilitation in the next 12 months?

Not to my knowledge

13.  Does your system have a single accountable lead for rehabilitation working at director/board level?

Yes

14.  What is their name and job title?

Jo Robinson, Chief Health and Social Care Officer

15.  If you do not have a single accountable lead with overall responsibility for rehabilitation working at director/board level, are you recruiting someone to take on this work? When do you intend to have someone in post?

N/A

16.  Does your system have a non-board/non-director level employee with a specific remit/portfolio to take forward the development of rehabilitation services?

Not to my knowledge

17.  What is their name and job title?

N/A

18.  Does your system have a rehabilitation programme setting out plans to deliver, expand, integrate and redesign services?

This is a continuous process in response to patient need, Policy and Best Practice guidance