As a rough sleeper scheme in Bridlington receives more funding, health leaders in East Yorkshire say there is still more work to be done in joining up NHS and Social Care services in coastal towns like Bridlington.
Simon Cox, East Riding of Yorkshire Place Director at Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, says the population make up in Bridlington presents some specific challenges, particularly in providing services for the elderly.
"Bridlington has a net inward migration of the retired population, like many coastal towns.
So Bridlington has the dual challenge of having some significant areas of deprivation, but also a relatively elderly population. Which means that we do need to focus on areas like improving access to frailty services work on falls reduction and that continuing engagement and interface and integration between NHS and local authority run services.
The boundaries between ongoing NHS and social care are often blurred and we need to work as closely as possible to integrate them."
Mr Cox says the town also faces challenges around support for rough sleepers but says it's another area where cooperation between the NHS and the local authority is working well.
"We successfully introduced, co-funded between ourselves and public health, the rough sleeper service in Bridlington, which we fortunately have secured funding for further two years of that. So that does target some of the most at need populations with some of the worst outcomes.
And we are recognizing that there's further work we need to do in terms of access to mental health"
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