The System Project Lead for Home First and the Deputy Chief Strategy Officer for Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust introduced this report which provided an update on progress of full-system implementation of Home First.

Home First was an approach that ensured people could leave hospital or intermediate care wards with support as soon as medically fit to leave, with assessments of long term need happening at home. Wirral had delivered a successful Home First pilot between September 2022 and March 2023, with a planned expansion for all discharges by the end of 2023.

Members asked for reassurance that there continued to be assessments where proposed relatives acting as carers may be frail themselves.

Resolved – That the report and progress made be noted, and the roll out of the Home First approach as part of wider efforts to improve health and care services and long term quality of life and independence for people in Wirral be supported.