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Unit 513 Manage health and social care practice to ensure positive outcomes for individuals

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Unit 513 Manage health and social care practice to ensure positive outcomes for individuals

1.1 Explain outcome based practice.
Outcome based care is about putting the customer at the centre of the care service and not prescribing a one size fits all policy. Care should always be bespoke to the customer taking into account their needs and choices. Care should allow the customer to live a fulfilled life, help them identify and achieve the things they would like to do. Outcome based care requires careful planning with full involvement from the customer their relatives should they wish and other health care professionals if required. Teamwork and communication is essential to ensure continuous quality improvement, and process and …show more content…

Although initially this was only available to people under 65 years with physical and sensory impairments, learning difficulties and mental health problems. It was later amended to include older people, 16 -17 year olds and parents of disabled children. The Act gave local authorities in Britain and Northern Ireland the powers to make cash payments to disabled people In the Health and Social care act placed a mandatory duty on all local authorities to offer direct payments to all eligible people requesting one this came in to effect in 2003.
Valuing People (Department of Health 2001) it was introduced by the labour government who were keen to promote independent living. This white paper on learning disabilities was for the first in England in 30 years. It made direct payments available to more people with a learning disability and was the first paper where we officially come across the term ‘Person Centred Planning’. It stresses the importance of Personal Centred Planning in helping people with learning difficulties take charge of their own lives. This paper has been ‘refreshed’ in 2009 titling it Value People Now and is a new three year strategy for people with learning disabilities, and will lead to better lives for people.
Person Centred Planning allows more control for the customer allowing their individual choices and needs to be catered for and in turn services such as what I as a manager

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