Hospital Discharge Fund (core)
Link Officer:
Gordon Watson
gordon.watson@vanl.co.uk
Fund
Hospital Discharge Fund (core)
Fund Purpose
Supporting patients and their carers around hospital discharge, signposting to immediate and longer-term sources of community support .
Funding Provider
HSCNL
Custodian Funding
£77.5k
Recurrent or Fixed Term
Recurrent
Fund Start Date
April 2020
Fund End Date
N/A
Award Process
- Prepared by Senior Programme Officer (SPO), including quarterly invoice amounts and unique purchase order numbers for each invoice. Senior Manager Community Solutions (SMCS) checks and signs award letter and they are then issued.
- Funded project returns signed acceptance section and first quarter invoice, quoting the unique purchase number order, to SPO. All paperwork is saved in a Spoint folder and a link sent to Finance. Subsequent invoices for remaining quarters submitted by host organisations in line with schedule in award letter.
- Once satisfied all paperwork is present and correct, Finance staff will process each invoice in Xero and SMCS approves it on system, Funds are then released to project in next payment run.
Reporting by funded projects
Getting Better Together Wishaw and Shotts submit a 6-month Interim Report to VANL in November, and a 12-month End-of-project Report on in April.
Reporting by VANL to funder
VANL reports on the Hospital Discharge Support Programme in the annual Community Solutions Impact and Learning report, with an aim to publish in September.