The Government intends to place a focus on social and health integration to promote care that is centred around the individual

A preliminary report on the draft bill for the Integrated Social and Health Care Agency has been approved

The Department of Health and the Department of Social Rights will soon launch a public consultation which will be open to all citizens and organisations. The aim is to identify and incorporate the needs of the entities that provide care services and of the professionals that carry out these services in order to reinforce integrated care.

One of the levers of change to ensure an integrated coordination between social and health care is the development of an integrated model of information systems. This would allow for a holistic and joint approach to the different cases that require care services. In other words, the interaction and sharing of information through a shared social and health history would allow organisations and professionals from different areas of care to coordinate and collaborate together.

Planning and deploying integrated care strategies means better management of resources, which in turn translates into a higher quality and efficiency in public services. More equity, accessibility and sustainability of a public and universal system to attend to an increasingly complex society.

In this regard, the Government has approved a preliminary report on the draft bill for the Integrated Social and Health Care Agency. This means that the Ministries of Social Rights and Health have taken another step towards the creation of this body, which will guarantee integrated care for people with basic and/or complex needs.

Other objectives set out in the draft bill of the Social and Health Care Agency are the transformation of residential services to adapt them to the needs, rights and diversity of the people and territories benefiting from care services.

Guaranteeing the right to live independently and as a member of a community with the best possible standards of living requires strengthening and integrating home care services and support.