Get the Picture with Social Care TV

Social Care TV programmes aim to bring real world examples to social care staff, managers, commissioners and trainers. Already up on the site are 25 videos covering topics such as dementia, personalisation and safeguarding vulnerable children, with more in the pipeline. Click here to view.

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Conference: Managing Long Term Conditions - Personalised Care Plans and Self Care Services

Capita’s Managing Long Term Conditions Conference will ensure health and social care providers are equipped with the skills to meet the 2010 target of implementing effective personalised care plans and providing a full range of self care services.
As the prevalence of long term conditions increases, the promotion of pro-active management and self care are vital priorities for the NHS and social care services in order to meet the growing health care burden. The conference is being held on 16th September 2009 in London. Click here for further information.

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Working Together For Change: Using Person-Centred Information for Commissioning

The Department of Health worked with a group of councils, providers, community organisations and people using services to test and refine a method for collating and analysing person-centred information for use in strategic commissioning. We called this process Working together for change.
This practical guide describes a process for planning change with people which provides powerful insights into what is working and not working in their lives as well as their aspirations for the future.
Working together for change can be used to ensure that active partnerships with local people and families are the driving force behind social care transformation programmes, as a vehicle for ensuring effective community engagement in the joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) and as a tool for strategic commissioning and service development. Click here for further information.

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New Horizons: towards a shared vision for mental health

This consultation sets out to take mental health care to a new level, by improving prevention of mental illness and supporting the local development of higher quality, more personalised services.

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Home Care - Is it Personal? Ceretas Annual Conference 10th June 2009

This year’s conference will centre on the key themes of personalisation within the independent care sector. Key themes include: Commissioning for the new agenda, What does ‘quality’ really mean, Dementia - National Framework, The challenges - how to do we make it happen?
Delegates will be equipped with tools and information that can be used in their daily management of services whilst at the same time looking at the policies and future direction of home care. Speakers include Cynthia Bower Chief Executive, Care Quality Commission, and
Stephen Burke Chief Executive, Counsel amongst others. For further details and to book your place click here.

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Personalisation Discussion Paper

Personalisation and integration are set to be two of the biggest issues in 2009/10. With this in mind, the Integrated Care Network ran three workshops in Summer 2008 to explore the views of its members - what they thought the challenges where, what the terminology meant, were the issue had come from, and who was going to be doing what in 2009. This input, along with other updates along the way, has been used to create a discussion paper on personalisation. Access the other Care Services Improvement Networks (CSIP) here.

Personalisation Resource Toolkit

The toolkit includes help to develop resource allocation systems for personal budgets, advice on the range of ways people can manage their budgets and different approaches to to support planning and brokerage. Over the next few months, a team from the Care Services Improvement Partnership will share the materials in regional workshops with those leading transformation in councils.