General - North East London Local Pharmaceutical Committee

What is personalised care planning?

Personalised and integrated care planning is essentially about addressing an individual’s full range of needs, taking into account their health, personal, family, social, economic, educational, mental health, ethnic and cultural background and circumstances. It recognises that there are other issues in addition to medical needs that can impact on a person’s total health and well-being. It is therefore a holistic process, seeing the person ‘in the round’ with a strong focus on helping people together with their carers to achieve the outcomes they want for themselves, for example to live independently, achieve at school or return to work. For people with a terminal condition this could mean helping them to be cared for and to die in the setting of theirchoice. Providing people with quality, timely and relevant information is crucial, as is self care and self management advice. Risk management and crisis and contingency planning are integral to the process, in particular for people with complex needs or for those approaching the end of life.

The importance of providing people with information and support for self care means that personalised care planning is seamlessly linked to other Department of Health policies and commitments, in particular Your Health, Your Way (formerly called the Patients’ Prospectus), the Evaluation of Information Prescriptions and the Generic choice model for Long Term Conditions.
Health and social care professionals need to support people and their carers in having their say and in order for them to be equal partners in the care planning discussion. A more empowering and less paternalistic approach is required. The health and social care workforce therefore needs support to develop the skills, approaches and behaviours to deliver personalised care.http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/@ps/documents/digitalasset/dh_114950.pdf

An explanatory leaflet for the patient can be found [put a link to the attachment]. All patients on repeat dispensing should get this. You may want to see this to see what is contained in the care plan or when repeat dispensing or carrying out an MUR or LES (like smoking cessation).

Please check the leaflet on Care Planning( click here)