Shared Care: A Case Study

Integrated working is a coordinated, person-centred concept of care. Being person-centred allows the quality of care being delivered to be at an excellent quality. This is because the care remains tailored to the needs and preferences of the individual. Additionally Integrated working steers away from the episodic care and allows a more holistic view on an individual, in regards to their healthcare and support requirements. To achieve this individual care there are many aspects that allow health and social sectors to work together to support a person. Shared care plans is one of these aspects as this allows everyone involved with the care to all have access to their personal care plan. This allows the service user not to repeat themselves to
This is a way of promoting independence and empowering the individual and focus on community resilience by taking charge of their own wellbeing. ‘Without integration at various levels [of health systems], all aspects of health care performance can suffer. Patients get lost, needed services fail to be delivered, or are delayed, quality and patient satisfaction decline, and the potential for cost-effectiveness diminishes.’ (Kodner and Spreeuwenbur, 2002, p2) In contrast to this, there are some concerns that injecting competition into services funded in the NHS may prevent effective integration. Which may result in fragmentation, which could lead to severe consequences for patients especially if their care is urgent or complex. Further disadvantages of having integrated care is the risk of confidentiality being broken or if the records are accessible online, the service may go down restricting everyone having access. In regards of key worker as the main point of contact, this would not be practical is integrated care was available for everyone as more staff would be required to become key workers which would not be cost effective and also workloads would increase due to the need to support every
A single budget is to support health and social care services, and allow them to work together in local areas. The fund does not only bring the local resources together with the NHS it provides an opportunity to improve services and be cost effective. The fund itself does not report the pressures financially faced by local authorities and CCGs, but it does act as a facilitator for a collective approach to delivering good quality services and