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

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

1.1Explain outcome based practice.
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 outcome measurement. There are key benefits of outcome based care

•The customer’s desires, aspirations, abilities and talents are explored and utilised to help ensure they lead a more fulfilling life. •It empowers care workers to work more closely with service users to understand how best to enable their independence •The service can respond more easily to changing needs and preferences •It contributes to maintaining a customer’s independence. •It enables customers to exercise more choice and have more flexibility in the day to day delivery of their service •It encourages partnership working between all stakeholders involved in the delivery and management of an individual’s care………..

1.2Critically review approaches to outcome based practice
Outcome based practice was introduced as a new way of working replacing a needs based approach to care and support offered. Rather than a ‘needs’ based approach to care and the support offered it became Outcome/results based accountability. A needs based delivery of care was difficult to measure in terms of success or failure where as an ‘outcome’ based delivery was more focused on an individual’s achievement. Outcomes within a social care context are concerned with quality of life rather than simply levels of ability, health, health or housing status. …….

Assessment of needs for community care services.
This meant that local authorities were duty bound to carry out a full assessment of need for the community care services where a person appeared to be someone for whom community care services could be provided, and a person’s circumstances may have need the provision of some community care services. Community Care and Direct Payment Act 1996

Direct payments were set up with the………..