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Unit 6 - Personalisation - LO1 1.5-1.6 - Legislation and LA Flashcards

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What are the 4 legislation underpinning personalisation?

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Health and Social Care Act 2012
Local Authority Guidance (DH) 2008
The Care Act 2014
Children and Families Act 2014

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What is the focus of the Health and Social Care Act 2012?

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Improving the quality of care. This act reinforced personalisation in social care and empowered patients to make choices.

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What are the key aspects of the Health and Social Care Act?

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  • Strengthened the collective voice of patients
  • Ensured feedback encouraged as used as a means of assessing the quality of services
  • Puts individual at centre of care
  • Enhances voice, choice and control
  • Better collaboration between services
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Who does the Health and Social Care Act support?

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Patients

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What key features of personalisation does the Health and Social Care Act support?

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Personal budgets
Co-production
Choice and control
Self-assessment (to some degree)

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What is a weakness of the Health and Social Care Act?

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Relies on patients making choices but in some rural areas there may be no choice.
Not all patients want choice and the act assumes everyone is able to make choices.

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What are the focuses of the Local Authority Circular (DH) 2008 - Personalised Guidance?

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Everyone who receives social care support regardless of their level of need in any setting will have choice and control over how their support is delivered.

  • To reinforce the commitments to personalisation
  • Maintain or improve well-being and independence
  • Proactive approach
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Who does the Local Authority Circular (DH) 2008 - Personalised Guidance support?

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Everybody who receives social care support

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How does the Local Authority Circular (DH) 2008 - Personalised Guidance support personalisation?

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  • It enables people to live their own lives as they wish
  • It enables people to be confident that services are of high quality
  • People will have choice and control over how that support is delivered
  • Everyone who receives social care support, regardless of their level of need, will have choice and control over how that support is delivered
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Which key features does the Local Authority Circular (DH) 2008 - Personalised Guidance support?

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Choice and control
Personal budget
Co-production
Changing roles of professionals

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What is a weakness of the Local Authority Circular (DH) 2008 - Personalised Guidance?

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Everybody has to embrace putting the individual in the centre of their care, so if one person doesn’t do this, it doesn’t work effectively.

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What is the focus of the Care Act 2014?

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Combining existing pieces of legislation but aimed to give greater control to those in need of support.
Prior to the care act only those who received a direct payment had a personal budget.

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What are the key aspects of the Care Act 2014?

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  • Encourage service users to think about the outcomes they want
  • Authorities are to encourage people to lead a healthy life
  • Clear guidance should always be provided to help make informed choices
  • Emphasis on the use of advocates
  • Penalties to those who do not provide care and support to a high standard
  • Emphasis on safeguarding
  • Emphasis on personal budgets and payments
  • Appeals process against council decisions
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Who does the Care Act 2014 support?

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People and their carers

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What are 4 significant developments relating to personalisation in the Care Act 2014?

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  • Provide information so people can make choices
  • Stronger emphasis on personal budgets
  • People can appeal against council’s decision
  • Supports carers as well as patients
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How does the Care Act reinforce personalisation guidelines for health and social care professionals?

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  • It encourages people to live more independent lives
  • Focuses on individual’s wellbeing
  • Individual should be involved in decision making
  • Individual’s wellbeing and feelings should always be considered
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What is a weakness of the Care Act 2014?

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Individuals may not realise they should be given information to make decisions.
Everybody needs to be on board so that it works.

18
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Which key features does the Care Act support?

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Personal budgets
Co-production
Choice and control
Self-assessment of needs
Changing roles of professionals
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What is the focus of the Children and Families Act 2014?

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Put children and young people at the heart of decision making through co-production and person-centred practice.

20
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What is the key feature of the Children and Families Act 2014?

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It emphasises the importance of engaging young people and their families in all processes.

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How does the Children and Families Act 2014 support personalisation?

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  • It involves young people in decision making
  • Choice and control for children
  • Local authority provide information, advice and support
  • Local authority carry out Child’s Needs Assessment so children can make informed choices for their future
22
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What are the four roles of the local authority?

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  • Assessment
  • Housing
  • The Care Act
  • Decentralisation and commissioning

AOL

23
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What 3 things does the local authority bring about after an assessment?

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  • EHCP (Education Health Care Plan)
  • Fair access to care
  • Budgets
24
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What 3 things does the local authority have to provide to do with housing?

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  • Choice of residence
  • Adaptions
  • Meeting housing needs
25
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What does the Care Act provide to do with the role of the local authority?

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Removed geographical barriers

26
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What 2 things does decentralisation and commissioning provide to do with the role of local authority?

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  • Outsourcing services

- Greater range of choice

27
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What is decentralisation?

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The process of redistributing or shifting functions from a central authority or location.

28
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What is commissioning?

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The process of planning, agreeing and monitoring services. Key to commissioning is working in equal partnership with individuals who use services, their families, communities and organisations.

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What is the CCGs?

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  • Stands for Clinical commissioning group

- Manges NHSs commissions in the local areas

30
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What is the Monitor (H&SC Act)?

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  • The sectors regulator to improve the health sector for patients
31
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What is the Health watch England?

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  • Allows the voices of the public to be heard by those higher up
32
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What is the CQC?

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  • A body which inspects the quality of health and social care services

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