Community Connections Moray - Exploring digital solutions to current social care and health needs

Join the Self-directed Support Team in learning about Moray HSCP’s collaboration with the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre in developing and using a digital platform (a ‘one stop shop’) for older people and unpaid carers to find and connect easily with local services and a Personal Data Store which enables people to build their own story and start their personal data store. hear about a recent evaluation of users’ experience of these digital tools, demonstrating how critical it is to listen to people with lived experience and how their experiences will contribute to the future development of digital tools in Moray. Health and social care services in Moray, Scotland, face a growing demand that is outstripping capacity, resulting in significant pressure across the entire system. Long waiting times for care assessments and care packages, and a shrinking workforce capacity are just a few of the most critical challenges identified. Care in Place is one of five Living Labs the Rural Centre of Excellence (RCE) and Moray Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) are collaborating on along with citizens, staff and third sector groups to explore using digital solutions to current challenges with health and care needs. “I jumped at the chance because there’s nothing out there that is coordinated to help carers find the different paths that they need. (...) when I started as a carer, I was quite unprepared for the impact it would have on your emotional wellbeing.” Unpaid Carer, Forres “Learning from this experience is crucial for Moray, the challenge of resourcing services grows, we need to find different ways of providing support and in particular how technology can be used to help people find support in their immediate community and share information more effectively improving choice and control.” Iain MacDonald Deputy Head of Service (Interim)/ Locality Manager - Forres & Lossiemouth Moray Health & Social Care Partnership Community Connections Moray supports older people and those caring for them to find services that matter to them more easily and directly connect: www.communityconnect.scot