This new model of care will aim to make sure people get the right care at the right time, by the right team in the right place. It also aims to ensure that patients with a life limiting illness, their families, carers and those important to them have equal access to high quality community-based specialist palliative and end of life care and support that is sustainable and coordinated, and which from diagnosis through to bereavement reflects their individual needs.
We would like to thank all the members of the NW London CSPC Model of Care Working Group and the wider patients, families, carers and other stakeholders for their feedback and suggestions that are so integral for the success of this programme.
The NW London CSPC Model of Care Working Group has been meeting weekly since May 2022, receiving background evidence and information, including all the wonderful and insightful feedback we received through our engagement and which is detailed in the Engagement Outcome Report and we have heard what they have said is important to them. Whilst the work of the NW London CSPC Model of Care Working Group is ongoing they have so far:
- Discussed what good community-based specialist palliative care should look like and what the future capacity and demand for these services will be.
- Co-designed the over-arching principles which will underpin the overall design of future community-based specialist palliative care services in NW London for the next five years.
These principles are designed to work in co-ordination with principles that have been developed to support the provision of community-based specialist palliative care. We have developed an options development process to build on this work as we move towards making specific recommendations for services.
This appraisal process is transparent and robust and will allow us decide between different options and to develop a preferred way forward that addresses all the issues as laid in the Issues Paper that was published in November 2021.
This strong appraisal process will help us:
- Give due consideration of all options
- Reduce the options to a manageable number as quickly as possible
- Support the weighing up of different options
- Can be completed as simply as possible
Diagram one shows how the appraisal process will work.
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Following the appraisal process, we will then work with our Borough Based Partnerships, local residents and palliative and end of life care stakeholders to decide whether the new service standards can be delivered by existing service structures or whether a service change is needed. If it is deemed that substantial service change is needed, we will then need to consider if a public consultation is necessary. If consultation is needed the options will then go into the pre-consultation business case.
This is not a plan to replace work that is already going on. It is a plan to build on the on-going commitments in NW London for community-based specialist palliative care and identify where there are gaps and opportunities. |
We welcome your feedback on the approach outlined above. Please email nhsnwl.endoflife@nhs.net
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