Neurological Conditions
Background
The Long Term (Neurological) Conditions National Service Framework (NSF) was launched in March 2005. The NSF aims to transform the way health and social care services support people to live with long term neurological conditions. Key themes are independent living, care planned around the needs and choices of the individual, easier, timely access to services and joint working across all agencies and disciplines involved. The principles of the NSF are also relevant to service development for other long term conditions. This NSF is a key tool for delivering the government's strategy to support people with long term conditions outlined in the white paper Our health, Our Care, Our Say and the NHS improvement plan: Putting People at the Heart of Public Services.
It applies to health and social services working with local agencies involved in supporting people to live independently, such as providers of transport, housing, employment, education, benefits and pensions.
Workforce Planning
The Long Term Neurological Conditions guide is a resource produced by Skills for Health – Workforce Projects Team in conjunction with a number of healthcare charitable organisations, including the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Epilepsy Action, the Parkinson’s Disease Society, the Royal College of Nursing and the Department of Health. More information can be found under useful links.
The aim of the guide is to help commissioners and providers of services to people with long term neurological conditions offer to help them offer the
right service, delivered by an appropriate workforce, to meet the needs of this vulnerable group of patients. It outlines why services for neurological conditions are important, shows the importance of multidisciplinary healthcare teams plus illustrates and clarifies the contribution of specialist nurses. It also features examples of good practice and feedback from patients.
It works alongside other in depth coverage on long term neurological conditions, and whilst the content focuses on the conditions represented by the charitable contributors, the content is applicable to all those delivering care for a range of neurological disorders. The guide also includes a summary of the Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning.
Planning and developing the workforce to enable appropriate renal services to be delivered presents a new set of challenges, which include:
- Potential new or extended roles
- New models of care
- New types of team working across organisational boundaries and new settings
- New education and training needs.
Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team has developed the Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning to address these issues. The main aim of the six steps is to set out in a practical framework those elements that should be in any workforce plan.
The guide also includes a summary of the It works alongside other in depth coverage on long term neurological conditions, and whilst the content focuses on the conditions represented by the charitable contributors, the content is applicable to all those delivering care for a range of neurological disorders.
Patient Pathway
The NHS and Social Care Long Term Conditions Model builds on the wealth of local and international experiences and innovations to improve the health and quality of life of those with long term conditions.
For example, it reflects learning from US models such as Evercare and Kaiser Permanente
Workforce Planning
Effective workforce planning in long term conditions ensures you will have a workforce of the right size, with the right skills, organised in the right way within the budget that you can afford, delivering services to provide the best possible care.
Workforce planning resources
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