People residing in a few of Scotland’s most disadvantaged communities will profit from an extra £1 million of funding to assist deal with well being inequalities.

The Inclusion Health Action in General Practice programme supplies focused funding for help to sufferers whose social circumstances have a unfavourable impression on their well being.

The funding is allotted on to practices that are within the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board space and have on the record of 100 most disadvantaged practices in Scotland.

First Minister Humza Yousaf made the announcement as he visited the New Gorbals Health Centre in Glasgow.

The First Minister stated:

“General follow is on the coronary heart of our communities and is uniquely positioned to ship the care and help wanted by sufferers who expertise well being inequalities.

“Of the 100 poorest practices in the entire of Scotland, shockingly 81 at present sit inside the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board space – a statistic I’m decided to alter.

“This additional funding of £1 million will build on the foundations of previous funding. At a time when the cost of living crisis is widening health inequalities, this is an important step that supports our commitments to prevention and early intervention with patients at highest risk of poor health.”

Lorna Kelly, Chair of the Primary Care Health Inequalities Development Group stated:

“The NHS must be at its finest the place it’s wanted probably the most, or well being inequalities will proceed to worsen.

“This additional resource to general practices serving the most deprived communities in Scotland is therefore very welcome.”

Background

Inclusion Health Action in General Practice funding of £300,000 in 2022-23 was offered to common practices in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with the best ranges of poverty and drawback.

IHAGP pertains to advice from the Short Life Working Group on Health Inequalities in Primary Care report, printed in March 2022, that the Scottish Government present common practices with elevated assets focused at deprivation. The intent of the advice was:

1. to deal with a spot between present demand-led funding allocation processes and affected person wants related to inequality; and
2. to behave as a bridging mechanism between the present General Practice funding components and any future funding mannequin/strategy which takes fuller account of deprivation.