The Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) welcome the publication today of NHS England’s vison and model for personalised care: Universal Personalised Care: Implementing the Personalised Care Model.
The document sets out the vision and model for how 2.5 million people will benefit from personalised care by 2024. As people live longer, with more complex needs, personalised care is the direction Health and Social Care must take to meet the changing needs of society.
Commenting on the publication, Julia Scott, Chief Executive of RCOT says: “Occupational Therapists have always sought to deliver personalised care by the very nature of our holistic, whole person approach. Our education and development as highly skilled autonomous practitioners places us in a unique position to offer maximum value to patients, managers, commissioners and policymakers in this area. We are happy to support this document and keen to work with NHS England to showcase how occupational therapy can help to deliver this model for the future.”
Professional Adviser Paul Cooper, who leads on personalised care for RCOT added, “Occupational Therapy has a pivotal role to play in delivering the vision for Personalised Care. As Julia says, it is an approach we have championed for a number of years and we are gathering a number of service examples nationwide of how occupational therapy is transforming care for individuals through a personalised approach. We will be publishing the next Improving Lives Saving Money report with some of those findings very soon.”
James Sanderson, Director of the Personalise Care Group, NHS England said: “A one-size-fits-all health and care system simply cannot meet the increasing complexity of people’s needs and expectations. We’re setting out how people who live with multiple long-term conditions can expect the same choice and control over their mental and physical health that they have come to expect in every other aspect of their life.”
Mr Sanderson will be speaking at the RCOT Annual Conference on 17th June in Birmingham.