Single Assessment in Gateshead

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Single Assessment in Gateshead
Single Assessment In Gateshead
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Aims and Objectives

• Increase knowledge and understanding of Single
  Assessment
• Identify person centred care and what it means to
  us in practice
• Know about developments in Gateshead

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NSF for Older Peoplestandard 2 - person centred
care

• A Single Assessment Process should be put in
  place to ensure Person Centred Care is carried
  through in practice.

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What is Person Centred Care?

• We should treat Older People as individuals and
  enable them to make decisions about their own care

• Older People and their carers should receive
  services which respect them as individuals, and
  which are arranged around their needs.

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Avoid asking the same questions
Provide coordinated and integrated services
responses
Involve and support carers
Listen to older people
Respect differences including culture and
religion
Enable to make Informed choices
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The Vision for Single Assessment

• Assessment is STANDARDISED
• Assessment is OUTCOME CENTRED
• Assessment is IN PROPORTION
• Assessment is NOT REPETITIOUS
• Assessment involves the RIGHT PEOPLE in the RIGHT
  WAY

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The 4 Assessment Types

• Contact Assessment - basic personal information
• Overview Assessment - a rounded picture of the
  person and any difficulties they may be having
• Specialist Assessment - looking at 1 area in
  depth
• Comprehensive Assessment - looking at several
  areas in depth

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Single Assessment is a Process
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Whats in it for me?

• Keeping older people and their carers at the
  centre of common concern
• Recognising their expertise
• All working to one system
• Working towards the same goals
• Appropriate referrals
• Contributing to assessments effectively
• Team work
• Not duplicating work, or over/under assessing
• Job satisfaction

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The Domains for Single Assessment

• Users perspective
• Clinical background
• Disease prevention
• Personal care and physical well-being
• Senses

• Mental health
• Relationships
• Safety
• Immediate environment and resources

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Key implications for professionals

• Professionals contribute to assessment in the
  most effective way
• Assessment is about and for older people - they
  are the greatest experts in their own care

• The scale and depth of assessment is kept in
  proportion to the older persons needs
• Agencies do not duplicate each others assessments

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The National Programme for IT - NPfIT

• Underpinning IT structure to support the
  delivery of care and services
• For example integrated records service,
  electronic appointment booking service, Single
  Assessment

• Electronic solutions facilitate and complement
  SAP
• Focus on person centred care, by improving
  pathways so impacting on patient experience

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Progress in the Region

• SHA region chosen as Early Adopter for NPfIT and
  SAP Jan 2004
• As a consequence SHA decide that EasyCare (using
  liquidlogic software) will be the chosen tool for
  SAP in this region June 2004
• Sites chosen for roll out for SAP and the
  electronic solution in Gateshead Go Live 21st
  March 2005

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To me, Person Centred Care is . . .