P6/P7/M5/D4

Scenario

You have been working at Home Care Agency for a few months now and the Care Manager has asked you to attend multi-disciplinary meetings for two of the individuals that you work with. The Care Manager wants to know how the different professionals work together to meet the service users’ needs and how multi-agency and multi-disciplinary teams involved.

The role of the professional

You are now asked to produce a second report which justifies how organisations and professionals work together to meet individual needs while managing information and maintaining confidentiality and evaluate how multi-agency and multidisciplinary working can meet the care and support needs of specific individuals.

Your report must also

• Assess the benefits of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working for your chosen individuals.

P7 Explain the roles and responsibilities of different members of the multidisciplinary team in meeting the needs of specific individuals

P6 Explain why meeting the needs of the individuals requires the involvement of different agencies.

M5 Assess the benefits of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working for specific individuals with care and support needs

D4 Evaluate how multi-agency and multidisciplinary working can meet the care and support needs of specific individuals

1. For each individual - explain who will be involved in a multidisciplinary team. For each person involved explain their roles and responsibilities -

p 47-48

p 80 - 85

Rob - See "Life after stroke" and NICE guidance at the bottom. 

Jim - https://www.heartfailurematters.org/en_GB/What-can-your-doctor-do/People-that-may-be-involved-in-your-care 

2. How is care commissioned? https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/what-commissioning-and-how-it-changing Include:

•  2022 Health and Socal Care Act 

• National comissioning - Health Care

• Local commissioning - Social Care

3. Explain how Health and Social Care professionals and National and Local commissioning work together to provide care for each individual. 

4. For each individual - evaluate how  multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working (integrated care) will meet their care needs

• Benefits of multi agency working for case study.

• Why multi agency working may not work?

• Overall do you think multi agency working will be successful?

Resources

• MDT NHS report https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mdt-dev-guid-flat-fin.pdf

attached at bottom of page too - good pages p11,12,16,24,27,28

• http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2005/10/27/how-to-work-in-multi-disciplinary-teams/ (social work all)

• Jim see page 11"End of life care in heart failure A framework for implementation" at bottom

For distinction standard, learners will draw on and bring together their knowledge and understanding across learning aims to make suitable judgements on how successful multi-agency and multidisciplinary working meets individual needs. Learners must evaluate how an individual’s right to equality and independence can be promoted by multi-agency and multidisciplinary teams through enabling individuals to overcome challenges, but that this must be balanced with overcoming ethical issues.

Learners will consider how different organisations and professionals on the multi-agency and multidisciplinary teams work together to justify the suitability of each in providing support to meet each individual’s needs, while managing information and maintaining confidentiality. Learners could then discuss how effective the team’s working practices are for meeting individual needs. They could go on to make reasoned judgements about the importance of legislation and codes of practice in managing information and maintaining confidentiality. Learners could draw on the roles and responsibilities of three professionals in a variety of care environments to demonstrate proficient understanding of complex situations such as end-of-life plans or child-protection cases when maintaining confidentiality becomes an ethical issue.