| VALUING PEOPLE - LATEST INFORMATION |
| Please follow the link to access important resources just published on
- VP now delivery plan
- Health action planning and health facilitation guidance
- Easy read Health action planning and health facilitation guidance
- Basic Guidance on commissioning easy read information
- Contact details of national director
- Contact details for regional VP now programme leads
- Key priorities and action documents for health services, partnership boards and local authorities
- The VPST team structure.
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| A Rough Guide to Personalisation |
Personalisation: a rough guideBy Sarah Carr Published: October 2008 This guide aims to tell the story so far about the personalisation of adult social care services. It is intended to set out the current understanding of personalisation at a very early stage of implementation, exploring what personalisation is, where the idea came from and placing the transformation of adult social care in the wider public service reform agenda.
Key pointsThe report contains the following key messages and recommendations: - By identifying and transferring knowledge about good practice, SCIE has a special role to play in transforming adult social care services.
- Person-centred planning and self-directed support will need to become mainstream
- It will ultimately mean universal services such as transport, housing and education are accessible to all citizens.
- The personalised system will need to be cost-effective and sustainable in the long term.
- Approaches to early intervention and prevention need to develop further so that people are encouraged to stay healthy and independent.
- The social care workforce will need to acquire new skills.
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| Lord Darzi announced in his Next Stage Review of the NHS that the Department will launch in 2009 a pilot of personal health budgets, as a way of giving patients greater control over the services they receive and the providers from which they receive services. The pilots will draw on the experience of other health systems and in social care.
Personal budgets sit in a spectrum of policies of personalisation, which also includes choice and care planning. As the Prime Minister said in the preface to the Next Stage Review: ‘We need a more personalised NHS, responsive to each of us as individuals … giving us real control and real choices over our care and our lives.’ The Personal Health Budgets project team is working to develop the outline for the pilot scheme and in doing so is working with a wide range of people. We want to hear from anyone who would like to share their experiences in this area and help shape the project. We are particularly interested to hear from organisations, users or carers who are already trying out personal health budgets. Personal health budgets: first stepsIn January 2009 the Department published |
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| Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) |
| There are a number of documents providing guidance on the implementation of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS), including:
A leaflet providing a brief general introduction to the MCA DOLS and has been specifically designed for care homes and hospitals to help staff understand what the MCA DOLS will mean for them and for their service users
to download the leaflet follow this link:
Draft deprivation of liberty safeguards standard forms made available in order to facilitate best practice, training and preparation in advance of April 2009, when the deprivation of liberty safeguards come into effect. These forms are not to be used for making applications for deprivation of liberty authorisations, since they are not the final version that should be used |
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| NHS Constitution Published |
| The first NHS Constitution for England, a landmark in the history of the NHS has been created through a collaborative approach of consultation, discussion and research with NHS Staff as well as patients, public and stakeholders. The Constitution represents a commitment that all staff should have rewarding and worthwhile jobs, with the freedom and confidence to act in the interest of patients.
To do this, all NHS staff need to be:
trusted and actively listened to treated with respect at work, have the tools, training and support to deliver care, and opportunities to develop and progress. The NHS Constitution enables for the first time details as to what staff, patients and the public can expect from the NHS.
It sets out the purpose, principles and values of the NHS, as well as bringing together a number of rights, pledges and responsibilities for all staff and patients.
You can read the
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| Valuing People Now - New vision for people with learning disabilities |
| Published 19th January 2009 People with learning disabilities will be supported in every aspect of their lives, from housing and health to employment, Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson announced today. "Valuing People Now - A Three Year Strategy for People with Learning Disabilities" presents a new vision for improving services for people with learning disabilities across health, housing, employment and community care services. It follows a comprehensive consultation involving more than 10,000 people. Improving training, commissioning of services and strengthening local structures to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities, are fundamental elements of the Strategy. Key aims include: * ensuring people with learning disabilities get the healthcare they need and the support they want to live healthy lives; * supporting more people with learning disabilities, including those with more complex needs, into paid work; * ensuring people with learning disabilities have the choice to have relationships, become parents and continue to be parents; and * giving people with learning disabilities opportunities to study and enjoy leisure and social activities.
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| Autism and Employment Study |
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Understanding autism and employment is important for people with autism, Asperger syndrome and other conditions on the autism spectrum, as well as for their families. Researchers at Goldsmiths, University of London, want to find out about the emotional, physical and financial impacts on people with autism spectrum disorders and their families. They would like to hear from people who are: The questionnaire will take 20-30 minutes.
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| Refocusing the care programme approach: Policy and positive practice guidance |
| Following the national consultation, Reviewing the Care programme Approach (CPA), and having considered the issues identified, this guidance updates policy and sets out positive practice guidance for trusts and commissioners to review local practice to refocus CPA within mental health services.
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| Mutual Caring Project: Supporting older families who are looking after each other |
Lots of people with learning disabilities live at home with their older family carers, usually their mum or dad, brother, sister or grandparents. Although their carers still do lots to look after them, lots of people with learning disabilities do a lot to help look after their older carer too. When everyone is looking after each other, this is called ‘mutual caring’. Lots of people don’t get the help they need when they are carers. Lots of workers don’t realise that mutual caring is happening in older families. Lots of people do not realise that people with learning disabilities can be carers too. There are many things people can do to support older families where mutual caring is happening. This project aims to raise awareness about mutual caring and the different things that people can do to support older families.
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| Local authority support for adults with autism |
| As part of the National Autistic Society (NAS) I Exist campaign, all local authorities in England were asked if they have a system in place to record the number of adults with autism in their area and if, in line with Department of Health guidance, they have appointed a named individual or team with responsibility for autism. With the support of thousands of campaigners who have contacted their local authority to raise these demands, the NAS have now received a response from over two thirds of local authorities. A table has been produced this week and progress is indicated according to the following key: - green indicates progress in the area in question
- amber indicates a recognition of the issues and a willingness to address these
- red indicates no evidence of progress in the relevant areas
- purple indicates that the NAS have not yet received a response from the local authority.
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