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Long term conditions
- Ten things you need to know
- Long term (Neurological) Conditions NSF
- Aims of the long term conditions team
- High level outcomes
- Long term conditions model
- Your health, your way
- Good Practice Guide and examples
- Quality requirement 1: A person-centred service
- Quality requirement 2: Early recognition, prompt diagnosis and treatment
- Quality requirement 3: Emergency and acute management
- Quality requirement 4: Early and specialist rehabilitation
- Quality requirement 5: Community rehabilitation and support
- Quality requirement 6: Vocational rehabilitation
- Quality requirement 7: Providing equipment & accommodation
- Quality requirement 8: Personal care and support
- Quality requirement 9: Palliative care
- Quality requirement 10: Supporting families and carers
- Quality requirement 11: Caring for people with neurological conditions during admission
- Chapter 3 of the NSF: Neuroscience networks
- Supporting self care
- Case management
- Whole system demonstrators
- Disease management
- Publications and policy guidance
- Case studies
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Good practice guide
Advice to help NHS and social service organisations put into practice the national service framework (NSF) for long term neurological conditions. Includes examples of good practice from organisations around the UK.
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National service framework for long term neurological conditions
The NSF for long-term conditions sets out the quality requirements you need to work towards. This guide helps you get started with advice on self-assessment, planning and getting commitment from all partners - before you think about redesigning services.
Examples: how they were chosen
An explanation of how the examples of good practice from organisations around the UK were evaluated. Includes details of how to submit an example of good practice from your own organisation.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 1 - A person-centred service
People with long term neurological conditions are offered integrated assessment and planning of their health and social care needs. They receive the information they need to make informed decisions about their care. They receive support to manage their condition themselves.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 2 - Early recognition
People suspected of having a neurological condition are to have prompt access to specialist neurological expertise for an accurate diagnosis. Treatment should be as close to home as possible.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 3 - Emergency management
People needing hospital admission for a neurosurgical or neurological emergency are to be assessed and treated in a timely manner, by teams with the appropriate neurological and resuscitation skills and facilities.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 4 - Specialist rehabilitation
People with long term neurological conditions are to receive timely, high quality rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation should adapt to their continuing and changing needs. Once home, they need ongoing support in the community.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 5 - Community support
People with long term neurological conditions living at home are to have access to rehabilitation, advice and support to meet their continuing and changing needs. This will increase their independence.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 6 - Vocational rehabilitation
People with long term neurological conditions are to have access to rehabilitation and support to help them stay in their job or access training.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 7 - Equipment
People with long term neurological conditions receive assistive technology and adaptations to their accommodation to help them live independently and improve their quality of life.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 8 - Providing choices
Health and social care services work together to give people with long term neurological conditions the choice of living independently.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 9 - Palliative care
People in the later stages of long term neurological conditions receive a range of palliative care services to control symptoms, offer pain relief and meet their needs for personal, social and psychological support.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 10 - Supporting carers
Carers of people with long term neurological conditions have access to appropriate support and services that recognise their needs.
Good practice examples: Quality requirement 11 - Providing other care
People with long term neurological conditions have their neurological needs met while receiving care for other reasons, in any health or social care setting.
Good practice examples: Chapter 3 of the NSF
These examples demonstrate how neuroscience networks can improve services for people with long term conditions. Setting up clinical network groups can promote better co-ordination of service commissioning and delivery and improved collaboration between staff.
Additional links
Modernisation Agency Neurology website
This site replaces the Action On Neurology website and provides information about the outcomes from the Action On Neurology programme.
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