Assessment and personalised care plan
Quality statementPeople with dementia have an assessment and an ongoing personalised care plan, agreed across health and social care, that identifies a named care coordinator and addresses their individual needs. Quality measureStructureEvidence of local arrangements to ensure services are tailored to an individual's needs. Processa) Proportion of people with dementia whose individual needs are assessed and whose care plan states how those needs will be addressed. Numerator: Number of people with an assessment of individual needs and a care plan addressing identified needs. Denominator: Number of people with dementia b) Proportion of people with a named health or social care coordinator. Numerator: the number of people with a named health or social care coordinator. Denominator: the number of people with dementia. Description of what the quality statement means for each audienceService providers ensure that protocols are in place to ensure that personalised care plans identify named care coordinators and address the individual needs of people with dementia. Health and social care professionals ensure that personalised care plans identify a named care coordinator and address the individual needs of the person with dementia. Commissioners ensure that services are commissioned that tailor interventions to the individual needs of a person with dementia. People with dementia can expect to receive a care plan that identifies a named care coordinator and addresses their individual needs. Definitions‘Individual needs' arise from:
Data sourceStructureLocal data collection. Processa) Local data collection. Acute Trusts can collect data on the content of assessments using the National Audit of Dementia casenote audit, section 2. b) Local data collection. Contained within NICE CG42 audit support, criterion 6. |
This page was last updated: 18 November 2010
- Dementia
- Appropriately trained staff
- Memory assessment services
- Written and verbal information
- Assessment and personalised care plan
- Decision making
- Emotional, psychological and social needs of carers
- Non-cognitive symptoms and behaviour that challenges
- Liaison services
- Palliative care needs
- Respite services for carers
