Transcript ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

ALLIED HEALTH
PROFESSIONALS
ECG WORKSHOP
7 MAY 2010
DHSSPS OVERVIEW
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES
 NICE
Guidance, Strategic Themes,
policies, Service Frameworks, Adverse
Incidents, e.g.
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Physical Disability Strategy
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
Emotional Health and Wellbeing Strategy
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES
(Cont’d)
 Multidisciplinary
training and education
opportunities
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CPD for Non –medical Prescribers
Uni-Professional requirements
 Inter-professional
review of safety and
quality in undergraduate curricula
 Team Working (clinical decision making)
 Leadership
CONTEXT
 CSR
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3 years and beyond:
Reduced public services purse ie £344 million
efficiency target 2008-2011
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Equivalent 9% of budget per Trust over 3 years
Vacancy/workforce controls
Reconfiguration of services
Reform and modernisation
Added focus on quality and productivity
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
BOARD
 Plan
and commission services across
Northern Ireland
 With LCGs ensure services reflect local
need and priorities within five localities
 Drive improved efficiency and
performance (old SDU)
PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY
 Improve
health in general
 Reduce health inequalities
 Health promotion, eg obesity, suicide
prevention, teenage pregnancy
 Focus on better co-ordination of health
and social care interventions
 Patient safety
 Personal and Public Involvement (PPI)
PFA TARGETS
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To be achieved by March 2011 e.g.
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Elective care (9 weeks)
Improving acute services, eg A&E and Stroke
Supporting people at home, eg
• Reducing unplanned admissions
• Facilitating discharge
• Delivering care in the domiciliary setting
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Improving Mental Health Services, eg
• Preventing admissions
• Resettling long-stay patients
• Assessment and treatment pathways
MENTAL HEALTH
Bamford Action Plan and Mental Health Service
Framework
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Psychological Therapies Strategy (2009)
Personality Disorder Strategy (2010)
Risk Assessment and Management (2009)
Dementia Strategy (2010)
Mental Health Promotion Strategy (2010)
Patient Safety: (McCleery, O’Neill, McElhill inquiries)
Prison Health Care – Patient safety, self
harm/suicide, mental health awareness and learning
disability awareness and long term conditions.
LEARNING DISABILITY
Bamford Action Plan and Learning Disability
Service Framework
 Key components include:
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Focus on health improvement, health facilitation, in
both Primary Care and Acute care
Risk Assessment and Management
Community Forensic care for people with learning
disabilities
Autism Strategy
Impact of Ageing and Dementia Strategy
Children with complex needs guidance
Community based assessment and treatment
OLDER PEOPLE
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Key components include:
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Stroke strategy (2008)
Dementia Strategy
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
Northern Ireland Single Assessment tool
Chronic and complex disease management
(Respiratory and Cardiovascular Service
Frameworks)
Connected health and technology
End of life care
Patient experience standards
Older people’s services framework
QUALITY STRATEGY: BEST
PRACTICE BEST CARE
 Standards,
Safety, Patient Experience and
PPI
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Understanding and applying Quality Metrics to
focus on outcomes
Understanding Safety methodology
(prediction, Prevention, Safer Patient
Initiatives)
Public Health Thinking – Starting to look at
Strategy
eHEALTH
 Preparation
for information age healthcare
 ICT skills to use systems and software
 Informatics skills to synthesise and
analyse
 Understanding of application of technology
in AHP practice
PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE
CARE STRATEGY
 End
of Life Care Pathways (100% of staff
who initiate/manage must be trained)
 Generic Skills in Symptom Management (4
commonest symptoms – pain, nausea,
agitation and breathlessness)
 Communication skills at all levels
 Inter-professional learning at Specialist
Palliative Care level
HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED
INFECTION
 Review
of HCAI education (NIPEC)
 Identify Core Knowledge/skills
 Identify Specialist knowledge/skills
 Improve skills in surveillance methodology
 Responsibility of all HSC staff
CHILDREN AND FAMILY
SERVICES
AHP
 Ongoing Safeguarding Supervision training on
new processes
 Reviewed Child Health Promotion Programme
(CHPP)
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Applicable to AHPs, Health Visitors, School Nurses
and Midwives, GPs, etc
Ongoing updating of practice and training required
E.g. new standards, WHO growth chart, new contact
schedules, National Screening Committee and NICE
guidance (neonatal screening, ASD Action plan
recommendations, etc)
CHILDREN AND FAMILY
SERVICES
 Children
and Young People with physical
health care needs
 Transitions
 Specialist practice within Community