Delivering personalisation in health and social care

Delivering personalisation in health and social care – An interview with Helen Sanderson and Jaimee Lewis

Categories: Disability, Social work & social care

Helen Sanderson is Director, Helen Sanderson Associates and has written extensively on person-centred thinking, planning and community building. She co-authored the first Department of Health guidance on person-centred planning, as well as the 2010 guidance ‘Personalisation through person-centred planning.’ She was the expert advisor on person-centred approaches planning to the Valuing People Support Team.

Jaimee Lewis is strategic communications adviser to the Think Local, Act Personal Partnership, the sector-wide commitment to transforming adult social care that follows on from Putting People First. She has worked on communicating the personalisation agenda for several years, following her appointment as an advisor to the Department of Health’s individual budgets pilot programme in 2006.
Here, they discuss their new book, A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation, and explain what personalisation is and what it looks like; give some examples of how the tools in their book can be used in practice; and discuss why a person-centred approach to social care planning across all services, from mental health to end of life care, is the way forward – especially in difficult economic times. 
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Review of learning disability services

Review of learning disability services:
CQC (UK) have published the first five reports from a targeted programme of 150 inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities.

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Annual Report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2010

Annual Report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2010 Publication Date: 9 November 2011
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€2.5m intellectual disability centre planned for Clonakilty

By Áilín Quinlan

Monday, December 05, 2011

A €2.5 MILLION state-of-the-art facility for adults and children with intellectual disability is planned for the West Cork town of Clonakilty.

Work is expected to begin next spring on the first phase of the development by the group CoAction — a clinical facility and child services area, as well as a training centre and cafe for adults is envisaged. Planning permission is being sought for the building, which will cater for up to 85 children and 25 adults, and is expected to cost in the region of €1.5m.

It is hoped that this tranche will have been completed by mid-2013.

Read more: http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/health/25m-intellectual-disability-centre-planned-for-clonakilty-176037.html#ixzz1fkrhRieb

Disabilities rights legislation due

Minister of State for Disability Kathleen Lynch said the delay in publishing the bill had been useful in permitting improvements to it.

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CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor

A law dealing with the legal rights of people with disabilities will be published in the first quarter of 2012, according to the Minister of State for Disability.
Kathleen Lynch told a conference organised by Amnesty International and the NUI Galway Centre for Disability Law and Policy that the Mental Capacity Bill, much of which was contained in a 2006 Law Reform Commission Report, had been delayed by the priority given to financial legislation required in the EU-IMF programme.
However, the delay had been useful in permitting improvement to the bill and taking into account the Exchequer position with regard to the funding needs that would follow.
The enactment of this Bill would enable Ireland to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, she said, as the State would then be in a position to comply with the legal obligations imposed by the Treaty.

Budget Cuts Further Undermine the Independence of Disabled People

Press Release from DFI

5th December 2011

Speaking from the Disability Federation Ireland, Chief Executive John Dolan expressed deep concern over the cuts to social protection measures and services to people with disabilities introduced today through Budget 2012.
      “We appreciate the difficult decisions that this government has to make”, he said.  “However basic income of people with disabilities was already substantially cut in 2011 and now this government is targeting income support for young people with disabilities up to 24 years and wider secondary benefits that enable this vulnerable group to live in their communities”.

National Quality Assurance Criteria for Clinical Guidelines

HIQA publishes ‘National Quality Assurance Criteria for Clinical Guidelines’
November 16th, 2011 | Posted by LouiseF in Resources

This document outlines the criteria for developing high-quality clinical guidelines. It outlines criteria to quality assure clinical guidelines, including a criteria to insure that health evidence is searched systematically. Contact the Library for support in meeting the systematic search elements of the criteria.


National-Quality-Assurance-Criteria.pdf