Unit 513 Manage Health and Social Care Practice to Ensure Positive Outcomes for Individuals.

Outcome 1. Understand the theory and principles that underpin outcome based

1.1 Outcome based care is about putting the customer at the center of the care service and not prescribing a one size fits all policy. Care should always be bespoke to the customer taking into account their needs and choices. Care should allow the customer to live a fulfilled life, help them identify and achieve the things they would like to do. Outcome based care requires careful planning with full involvement from the customer their relatives should they wish and other health care professionals if required. Teamwork and communication is essential to ensure continuous quality improvement, and process and outcome measurement. There are key benefits of outcome based care.

1.2 there are positives and negatives to outcomes based practice.
The positives could be that failing or poor areas of practice will be targeted on and outcomes will be measured and new improved ways implemented. For people using a service this would be beneficial to them as they will be provided with a holistic service, support and care. So this can be demonstrated that any individual using as service is being supported in all areas rather than only in certain areas.

Negatives may be that there is too much focus on outcomes, goals and results which potentially could mean that the wishes and opinions of people using the service may not be taken into account as the focus may be on outcomes rather than the person.

Making a system less person centred and more business focused.

1.3 There’s a lot of legislation that refers to outcome based practice which have led to changes in health and social care. The Health and Social Care Act, Regulation of services by CQC, (also the new regulations in April 2015 Fundamental Standards.

The Green Paper 2009 and the White Paper 2010 re a national assessment of health and social care incorporating joined up working with all professionals and information, advice being more...