{"id":323251,"date":"2025-12-18T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323251\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:41:07","slug":"torbay-healthcare-partnerships-future-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323251\/","title":{"rendered":"Torbay healthcare partnership&#8217;s future under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas told cabinet members on Tuesday the partnership had attracted national attention and supported the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy5wpe9r1d6o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHS 10-Year Plan to shift activity from hospital settings into communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas said money from the health service had always been used to deliver adult social care as a way of reducing more costly admissions to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told the BBC: &#8220;Within the Torbay system, it&#8217;s somewhere between \u00a330-\u00a340m &#8211; a financial hole per annum within the budget and that&#8217;s causing the kind of conversations that are required at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torbay.gov.uk\/DemocraticServices\/documents\/s146629\/Cabinet%20Record%20of%20Decision%20Torbay%20Integrated%20Care%20Organisation%20S75%20Agreement.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Torbay Council agreed to increased costs of \u00a310.1m, external<\/a> over a five-year period with concerns raised over a possible \u00a336m deficit in adult social care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On its website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk\/about-us\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TSDFT, external<\/a> said it is &#8220;proud to be the first NHS Trust in England to integrate hospital and community care with social care&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;We know first-hand the positive impact that working together in partnership with others has on our local population \u2013 giving everyone a brighter future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas told cabinet members on Tuesday the partnership had attracted national attention and supported the NHS 10-Year Plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-323251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}