Developing innovative approaches to help meet the complex needs of our service users, providing the best possible service user experience and reducing the length of stay are some of the things we’re committed to achieving here at St Andrew’s Nottinghamshire. As part of this commitment we have been developing, in collaboration with Debra Moore Associates, a Forensic Secure Integrated Care Pathway (ICP) for both our learning disability and autistic spectrum disorder pathways.
The ICP is helping us to clearly define and articulate our patient journey through secure care, ensuring that they are engaged throughout the process as equal partners. Starting with our Learning Disability service, the ICP will help to increase the ownership and responsibility service user’s have for their own care and treatment by providing a clear and transparent process of assessment and therapy that addresses the risk factors that brought them into secure care. This requires a change in cultural approach which is driven by Person Centred care, planning and treatment.
By putting the service user at the centre of our approach, we are able to monitor individual progress against their care pathway trajectory, and make judgements and anticipations with regards to their discharge into less secure settings, thereby affecting their length of stay positively. As we do so we will utilise evidence-based tools and benchmark findings throughout.
In addition, the ICP supports our clinical teams, providing tools, information and resources related to the pathway and any particular stage of the treatment journey. Details of relevant assessments, interventions and tools will be on hand to support the teams in providing the best possible care at the right stage in the journey and these will be available through a user friendly eLearning interface. Initially this will be available for staff, but it is our aspiration to ensure service user access also.
Training in our ICP model in its revised format will be completed and rolled out across St Andrew’s Nottinghamshire in September 2011, whilst at the same time we will be progressing the ASD similarly.
Read more about the Integrated Care Pathway (ICP)