Newsletters

As a result of feedback from Year of Care GP clinical leads we produced resources and guidance about personalised care and support planning during the pandemic. This includes suggestions on which groups of patients to prioritise and how to best run the process when the consultations are most likely to happen over the telephone.

In this edition of The House Journal we focus on publications and research. We’re delighted to draw your attention to the very important BMC Family Practice article that describes how the Year of Care approach to care and support planning was developed, right from its original inception and theoretical foundations. We also focus on the work that Dr Sarah Brown has been doing as part of her PhD on a realist evaluation of care and support planning.

In this edition we announce a new Year of Care team member, Dr Becky Haines, who joined us as GP clinical lead. Other important topics are a Gateshead case study in the Richmond Group Multiple Conditions Guidebook, details of the South West London NHS Digital Test Bed Project, a UK visit from the National University Singapore and also some practice pack and resource changes.

In this edition of The House Journal we focus on Year of Care’s ground-breaking work test out how care and support planning could be expanded to include people with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. Our work demonstrated that it’s beneficial to include people with MSK conditions within a CSP process but highlighted the poor status of such ‘non-QOF’ conditions in terms of planned, proactive care within primary care. We are delighted to include a note about the project from the Versus Arthritis CEO Liam O’Toole.

The 2019 Network Event was another great success and this newsletter shares details of the keynote speeches from Cindy Mann and Jonathan Silverman, together with the event workshop summaries and reviews and comments from the event participants.

In this edition of The House Journal we are delighted to be celebrating the success of the British Heart Foundation House of Care programme and also some positive experiences in Jersey. We also share with you some new policy developments in England and Scotland and some reflections on how we gain useful feedback from people who experience care and support planning.

We have gathered some good news stories and data from round the community of practice and are delighted to share them in this edition.

North East Essex – A new community-based service

Tower Hamlets – A decade of improvement

British Heart Foundation – ‘House of Care’ project

Lanarkshire patient survey

Newcastle and Gateshead – care and support planning in multimorbidity

Here we present an introduction to the advantages and differences of care and support planning for people living with frailty. We also share the resources we have developed for use by practices and a link to a video from Dr Robert Westgate who summaries his thoughts on the benefits of a care and support planning approach in frailty.

This edition shares lots of news and updates from the 2017 Network Event ‘Care and support planning across a lifetime’. Topics include overviews of keynote presentations from Alf Collins and Sue Arnott, challenges posed by moving onto a ‘multimorbidity’ approach to care and support planning, raising professional issues in the conversation and the Year of Care IMPACT tool.

In this special edition of The House Journal developed for Year of Care trainers we focus on the important role that trainers and training play in engaging and supporting teams with the changes that need to happen to make care and support planning the norm.  Included are updates on resources and training modules to help support local implementation.