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Developments in Care; The Single Assessment Process
The single assessment process (or SAP) aims to provide person-centred care to service users and their carers in order to ensure that the elderly are treated as individuals rather than simply patients. Due to the number of separate agencies often communication between the organisations isn't clear which leads to people being assessed more frequently than is necessary or important personal information getting lost. The Single Assessment Process endeavours to overcome these bureaucratic issues and to keep the individual in question well informed at all times.
The Single Assessment Process aims to provide appropriate and timely care packages which meet their needs as individuals, regardless of health and social boundaries. There was unanimous support at the recent meeting discussing the green paper's proposal to create a single needs assessment for a disabled person that would be "portable" and recognised by any local authority wherever an individual lived in Britain. This was seen as a massive leap forward in social care policy, as the new assessment would break down one of the biggest barriers to social and economic mobility cited by people with a disability.
Previously the amount of support and care that an individual received varied according to where they live, in the industry it was known as the 'postcode lottery', but now the government is positive that the change will democratise the process further. However some participants were less enthusiastic than many of the ministers because the new care legislation failed to offer any specific details about the actual services an individual would receive.
Obviously for those receiving care this is a significant concern. Although the proposal of an improved system sounds appealing and is definitely a step in the right direction the issue is with the government who are either not willing or not ready to discuss the intricacies of how it will effect the actual care administered. The single assessment process is supposed to provide person centred care which revolves around the philosophy that the individual is the expert and the point of this care is to help build the participants confidence so they can live as independently as possible.
It sounds as if these changes are taking measures to develop the communication between agencies and other authorities such as local councils so that individuals receive the correct care when they need it. However it is still to be seen whether that the level of the care provided is also improved.
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