Audits of the Scottish Government’s flagship plan to merge health and social care have flagged up red alerts including budget overspends, overpriced care, and a lack of district nurses putting safety at risk.
Internal documents, obtained by Scotland on Sunday, have identified a series of challenges faced by the project in Edinburgh, which have led to calls for more to be done to create the “cultural shift” to sort out the “crisis” in social care.
The policy to bring together care services that were once the preserve either of councils or of health boards has led to the creation of 31 Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) to oversee the transformation.
The merger, which has broad political backing, aims to create a system that will see more elderly people…
