The HICM is designed to support system partners to self-assess how local care and health systems are working now, and to reflect on, and plan for, action they can take to deliver improvements in care and achieve efficiencies and savings throughout the year.
The system lead identified to review the recommendations from this HICM should consider the key stakeholders locally that will need to be engaged to provide meaningful solutions. Initiatives related to ‘optimal handling’ are often owned by the Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) within a system, specifically Occupational Therapists (OTs) and Physiotherapists. Whilst AHPs are ideally skilled to lead this work it is critical that it is owned by the most senior SROs in the system so that the impact of current ways of working and the opportunity for change is understood and acted upon at the highest levels.
Through this model, there is an opportunity to raise the ambition level and do something different to reduce deconditioning and harm and to improve people’s lives, whilst ensuring a more sustainable health and care system.
Each of the 8 High Impact Change ‘areas’ has list of actions of what health and care systems can do to optimise person’s independence and outcomes. Where appropriate, stakeholders’ voices have been highlighted in appropriate sections