Shared Assessment
Shared Assessment Care Planning and Review
Shared Assessment is the streamlining of the assessment process to enable the needs and outcomes for the individual to be identified and subsequent interventions and services put in place. Shared Assessment ensures that at any one time a lead professional, rather than a number of different people, co-ordinates the assessment, ensures that agreed services are put in place and acts as a point of contact.
(link to SSA guidance)
National Minimum Information Standards
In order for Shared Assessment to work it requires the sharing of information across agencies. The National Minimum Information Standards have been developed for users' assessments, care plans, reviews and carer assessments. They support professionals in social care, health and housing - to carry out holistic and effective assessments, to prepare appropriate care and support plans, and to carry out the reviews of care plans objectively and timeously.
The standards issued on July 28, 2008 set a national minimum. Partnerships can also introduce other aspects to meet local needs and to inform performance management reporting. Partnerships have until March 2009 to implement them in paper form, and electronically within 6 months of having the capability to share information electronically. For some partnerships, this could be by March 2009, but for others it will be in 2009/10.
(link to NMIS)
Care Management
Care Management is a process in which an individual's needs are assessed and evaluated, eligibility for service determined, a care plan prepared and implemented, services tailored to individual needs provided, and needs are monitored and re-assessed. It is focussed on people with complex, or frequently or rapidly changing needs.
(link to Care Management)