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Equipped for Inclusion: Report of the Strategy Forum: Equipment and Adaptations

Appendix 5: Glossary

Best value an open and transparent process for demonstrating best use of public resources.

Care management is a process of relating services to individual needs. It is founded on a needs-led approach to the provision of community care. It aims to respond appropriately to individual needs by enabling consideration of a range of options and by making effective use of available resources through concentrating on those people who have the greatest needs.
Circular No: SWSG11/91 5389

Cost utility is a method of evaluating the different kind of benefits arising from a use of resources, in addition to the prime consideration. Factors such as improved quality of life, reduction in productivity, need for other health and care services are components that could be used to evaluate the economic impact of any action.

Diagnostic assessment refers to the process of defining the specific nature of a difficulty, and the finding the right equipment or adaptation, through specialist knowledge and expertise.

Disabled people

See Appendix 1 for discussion of terminology.

iBOT wheelchair or mobility system is a new mobility device that is designed to function as a standard mobility device, to use its four wheels to cross rough terrain, to go up and down stairs, to rise vertically to eye-level and balance on two wheels. This is made possible by gyroscopes that are programmed to create balancing capabilities based on an individual's centre of gravity, emulating the principle by which humans are able to stand, balance themselves and navigate around and through various environments and terrain.

Joint management is the overall term that covers the elements needed to ensure a more co-ordinated and effective approach to services including planning, commissioning and operational management.
Circular No: CCD7/2001 5 September 2001

Joint resourcing is the overall term that covers all aspects of resources brought together to provide a single focus for the planning, commissioning and delivery of services.
Circular No: CCD7/2001 5 September 2001

Modernising Government Fund helps to take forward projects involving the innovative provision of improved services to the public and contributes to the development of 21st Century Government for Scotland.

Non-professional staff is used to refer to those employees who work within equipment and adaptation services, or within the wider organisations that deliver these services, who do not hold a recognised professional qualification, relevant to that service. Their expertise will vary according to experience, and the area of service in which they work.

Single shared assessment

Single Shared Assessment [SSA] creates a single point of entry to community care services that will lead to better use of resources and more effective outcomes for people. Professional barriers can be broken down; individual skill ranges can be expanded. Self-assessment and assessment in partnership with the person should be the norm when assistance is required, and specialist involvement should be there only when it needs to be.
Circular No: CCD 8/2001 29^th November 2001

Rehabilitation is defined by the World Health Organisation [WHO] as "restoring the basic function". Habilitation is sometimes used where the function is being established for the first time.

Resource use measure [RUM] is a standardised tool that will group individuals according to their level of relative need following a Single Shared Assessment.
Circular No: CCD 9/2002 24^th September 2002

ReTSAG, the Rehabilitation Technology Services Advisory Group, works in partnership with the Scottish Rehabilitation Technology Providers Forum [SCOTRet], the Scottish Seating and Wheelchair Group [SSWG] and the Scottish Executive to co-ordinate national policy on the commissioning and delivery of quality services for all types of rehabilitation technology.

ReTIS, the Rehabilitation Technology Information System, is jointly funded by all Scottish Health Boards to provide a national information service for rehabilitation technology: wheelchairs and seating, prosthetics, orthotics, electronic assistive technology.

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