Supporting the Individual Journey through Integrated Health and Social Care (Doc)

SUPPORTING THE INDIVIDUAL JOURNEY
THROUGH INTEGRATED HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART A...........................................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Outline local resources and provision that supports integrated care working........................1
P2 Describe current local unmet need related to health, care and support service provision in
own locale....................................................................................................................................3
M1 Difference between healthcare and social care providers and types of interagency care
provision in relation to meeting the needs of the individual requiring care................................4
D1 Evaluate local resources and provision to meet needs of individual.....................................5
PART B...........................................................................................................................................5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................5
P3 Provide support to an individual in a health, care or support service setting.........................5
P4 Role of health, care or support service practitioner in supporting person centred care.........6
M2 Explain own involvement in the different person-centred assessments................................7
D2 Evaluate differences in care assessment................................................................................7
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P5 Provide appropriate leadership within the remit of own role in a health, care or support
service..........................................................................................................................................8
P6 Responsibilities of information sharing between multidisciplinary teams.............................8
M3 Competent and Autonomous Leadership in Information Sharing........................................9
D3 Own personal growth and development................................................................................9
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................9
P7 Different communication methods used to provide appropriate support...............................9
P 8 Apply appropriate communication strategies......................................................................10
M4 Demonstrate safe and clinically effective practice within own professional boundaries. . .10
M5 Analyse own capacity for positive and person- centred risk taking....................................10
D4 Role of Individual to communicate their needs of health care services..............................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Integrated health and social care is defined as the organised set of principles, guidelines
and instructions to provide enhanced levels of patient care with better coordination of services by
the professionals from varied sectors. Integration is the term which infers the combined use of
models, ethics and procedures to maintain cooperation and team work for better services
providers to the patients (Billings and De Weger, 2015). This assignment is based on
understanding the healthcare services in an area where multidisciplinary care is facilitated and is
required on immediate basis. Moreover, this includes a structured overview of Lincolnshire
Community Health Services NHS Trust to understand the gaps that pose as barriers and hamper
the working environment. Additionally, it focuses on the observational methods and role of
support service practitioner in supporting the person centred care. This also emphasis on
different communication methods to understand the significance of transparent channels between
the professional and patient.
PART A
LO 1
P1 Outline local resources and provision that supports integrated care working
Integrated care working aids the medical professional in offering better medical services
to local people. In order to meet the criteria of integrated care working care home is required
financial resources. They need funds so that they can buy new equipment and can offer
satisfactory services to the patients. Furthermore, self-management support is the provision that
need to be implemented in hospital. Social care act 2012 states that local government has to
provide real opportunities to care homes and also they have to monitor their activities timely.
This type of care provisions may help in offering the best services to communities (Carter,
Laurie and Dixon-Woods, 2015). If local hospitals work in collaboration with other health and
social care units then it will help in delivering integrating care to patients. NHS, Local
government association has made it very clear that they will fill the funding gap so that adequate
supply of services can be done.
Higher authorities need to involve more human being such as medical professionals those
who have great experience of offering services to patients. They may provide good and
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