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High level outcomes
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Last modified date:24 April 2008
Here are some key person centred aproaches, frameworks and systems to consider in order to deliver the outcomes.
Outcome 1
People have improved quality of life, health and well-being and are enabled to be more independent.
- All points listed under the other outcomes are relevant and key to help deliver and achieve this outcome
Outcome 2
People are supported and enable to self care and have an active involvement in decisions about their care and support.
- Direct Payments and Individual budgets
- Individual Needs Assessment
- Person-centred and integrated care planning
- Access to information for individuals and their carers
- Access to community contact and support networks
- Access to self care tools monitoring equipment and assistive technologies
- Access to self care skills training programmes and courses
Outcome 3
People are have choice and control over their care and support so that services are built around their needs.
- Joint strategic needs assessment and joint commissioning
- Direct Payments and Individual budgets
- Individual Needs Assessment
- Person-centred and integrated care planning
- Local involvement networks and joint strategic partnerships
- Use of the third sector
Outcome 4
People can design their care around health and social care services which are integrated, flexible, proactive and responsive to individual needs.
- Individual Needs Assessment
- Person-centred and integrated care planning
- Integrated working between health and social care, with multi-disciplinary teams
- Partnership working between primary and secondary care
- IT systems to support information sharing
- Service redesign – primary care, secondary care and community services to have resources and capacity to provide more services in the community
- Health and social care using a more holistic approach to creating services around individuals
- 24/7 cover
- Practise-based commissioning and joint commissioning for outcomes
Outcome 5
People are offered health and social care services which are high quality, efficient and sustainable.
- Service redesign – primary care, secondary care and community services to have resources and capacity to provide more services in the community
- Joint health and social care teams using a more holistic approach to creating services around individuals
- Social enterprise - more involvement of the third sector
- Practise-based commissioning
- Better use of performance measures indicators
- Quality and Outcomes Framework
- Payment by Results
- Patient surveys
- Use of NICE guidelines
- Primary care service frameworks
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