Personalised commissioning in adult social care

"The Department of Health now needs to gain a better understanding of the different ways to commission personalised services for users, and how these lead to improvements in user outcomes."

Personalised commissioning in adult social care
Comptroller and Auditor General
House of Commons
March 2016

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Implementing the NICE guideline on Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs

"Overall, it is expected that implementing the guideline will be cost saving. Implementing the guideline is likely to have resource implications (both costs and savings) for health and social care commissioners and for providers"

Implementing the NICE guideline on Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs (NG27) 
NICE (Costing statement)
December 2015

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Implementing the NICE guideline on social care of older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions

"The guideline covers how health and social care for older people with multiple long-term conditions should be planned and delivered. It addresses how those responsible for commissioning, managing and providing health and social care should work together to deliver safe, high-quality services."

Costing statement:Implementing the NICE guideline on social care of older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions (NG22)
NICE
November 2015

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The state of health care and adult social care in England 2014/15

"Many services have responded well, despite the increasing pressures, and managed to improve or maintain quality."

The state of health care and adult social care in England 2014/15
Care Quality Commission
October 2015

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How should we think about value in health and care?

"With this paper, we aim to articulate a new understanding of the value of engaging individuals and communities in health and care, and to discuss the challenges in progressing this."

How should we think about value in health and care?: Realising the Value
NESTA
September 2015

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Services for people with neurological conditions: progress review

"Part One of this report sets out a range of data on the quality of neurological services since we reported in 2011, including waiting times and emergency admissions."

Services for people with neurological conditions: progress review
Department of Health and NHS England
National Audit Office
July 2015

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Emerging practice in outcome-based commissioning for social care

"This paper is a progress report exploring the lessons learnt from a variety of approaches taken by councils to “outcome-based commissioning” in adult social care (sometimes called 'payment by results').  It considers some of the opportunities and risks that arise from taking this approach."

Emerging practice in outcome-based commissioning for social care
J Bolton
Institute of Public Care, Oxford Brookes University
April 2015

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Bipolar disorder clinical audit tool (NICE)

"This clinical audit tool can be used to carry out a clinical audit project that aims to improve the short and longer term management of bipolar disorder in adults in social care."

CG185 Bipolar disorder (update): clinical audit tool
NICE
December 2015

Access the tool here.

Maximising Older People's use of Personal Budgets

"The overarching aim of the programme was to ‘improve social care outcomes for older people using personal budgets’. Within this overall aim, the programme had a number of specific objectives based on the development of an ‘innovative volunteer-delivery model’"

Maximising Older People's use of Personal Budgets (MOPPU): Project Evaluation Report
A Ellis Paine, R Taylor, C Needham, R Littlechild, H Buckingham
Age UK
October 2014

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Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF) 2015 to 2016

"The ASCOF measures how well care and support services achieve the outcomes that matter most to people. The Framework:

• supports councils to improve the quality of care and support services they provide
• gives a national overview of adult social care outcomes in 2013 to 2014
• looks at how the framework will be developed in future"

Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF) 2015 to 2016

Department of Health

November 2014

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Care Act 2014: statutory guidance for implementation

"The guidance associated with the Care Act set out how the Act will work in practice when the first phase of the reforms comes into effect next year."

Care Act 2014: statutory guidance for implementation
Department of Health
October 2014

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The state of health care and adult social care in England 2013/14

"We found wide variation in care between trusts, between hospital sites, between hospital services and within each service."

The state of health care and adult social care in England 2013/14
Care Quality Commission
October 2014.

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Exploring the cost of care at the end of life

"The results suggest that cost savings might be available if community-based support were made more widely available to help people to die in their own homes, where that was their preference."

Exploring the cost of care at the end of life
T Georghiou, M Bardsley
Nuffield Trust
September 2014

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A new settlement for health and social care

"A new settlement is needed for health and social care in England that breaks down the historic divide between the two systems and provides a much simpler path through the current maze of health and social care."

A new settlement for health and social care: Final report
K Barker
The King's Fund
September 2014

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Adult social care efficiency tool

"The adult social care efficiency tool identifies similar areas (or ‘statistical neighbours’) for adult social care delivery for older people and working age adults with learning disabilities. These are the two largest groups who receive adult social care. The comparable indicators include spending per head, quality of services and access to services."

Adult social care efficiency tool
Department of Health
August 2014

Find out more and access the tool here.

Can we live with how we’re dying? advancing the case for free social care at the end of life

"this report provides an assessment of the views of senior health and social care decision makers about the economic case for free social care at the end of life."

Can we live with how we’re dying? advancing the case for free social care at the end of life
Macmillan Cancer Support
June 2014

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Looking forward to later life

"If...public services, businesses, civil society and all of us as individuals were ready, both to take advantage of the opportunities and to successfully navigate the challenges of later life, we would experience a triple dividend – increased wellbeing, reduced costs, and increased contribution."

Looking forward to later life: taking an early action approach to our ageing society
Early Action Task Force
2014

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Reducing the need for restrictive interventions

"Wherever possible, people who use services, family carers, advocates and other relevant representatives should be engaged in all aspects of planning their care including how to respond to crisis situations, post-incident debriefings, rigorous reporting arrangements for staff and collation of data regarding the use of restrictive interventions." 

Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions
Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnership Directorate
Department of Health
April 2014

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Transforming primary care

"By freeing up time and redirecting several hundred million pounds of public funding for hard pressed family doctors as well as nurses and other community health staff, the aim is to bring about broad-based improvement in care for our highest need patients."

Transforming primary care: safe, proactive, personalised care for those who need it most
Department of Health, NHS England
April 2014

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Commissioning in adult social care

Between May 2013 and February 2014 the Local Government Information Unit worked in partnership with home care provider Mears to deliver a series of roundtables for the Adult Social Care Thought Leader Series, including those on:

• Market Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Personalisation and Co-Production
• Integration
• Workforce Issues

This document brings together the notes from the series.

Commissioning in adult social care: the LGiO and Mears thought leader series - a summary
Local Government Information Unit, Mears
April 2014

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