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Single assessment process for older people: key implications, guidance for local implementation and annexes to the guidance
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of SAP is to ensure that older people receive appropriate, effective and timely responses to their health and social care needs, and that professional resources are used effectively. In pursuit of these aims, SAP should ensure the following goals. Individuals are placed at the heart of assessment and care planning, and these processes are timely and in proportion to individuals' needs. Professionals are willing, able and confident to use their judgement. Care plans or statements of service delivery are routinely produced and service users receive a copy. Professionals contribute to assessments in the most effective way, and care co-ordinators are agreed in individual cases when necessary. Information is collected, stored and shared as effectively as possible and subject to consent. Professionals and agencies do not duplicate each other's assessments.
The single assessment process guidance for local implementation: consultation draft
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance sets out how the single assessment process described in the National Service Framework for Older People 2001, should be implemented locally from April 2002. It is issued to councils with social services responsibilities under section 7(1) of the Local Authority and Social Services Act 1970.