Step 3
Multidisciplinary Assessment
Q1 Which key professionals will undertake the assessment to identify health/social care needs/ including housing and employment ?
Scottish Government (2005) Working for a change? The same as you? National Implementation Group Report of the short-life working group on Employment
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/12/18575/29596
Dept. of Health (2001).Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century. London: The Stationery Office.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2006) Promoting person-centred care at the front line www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/9781859354520.pdf
Scottish Executive (2001) Guidance on single shared assessment of community care needs.
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sehd/publications/DC20011129CCD8single.pdf
Dept of Health (2009) Working together for change: using person-centred information for commissioning.
http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/_library/ Resources/BetterCommissioning/WTFC_Final1.pdf
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (2009) Palliative Care Health Needs Assessment
http://library.nhsggc.org.uk/mediaAssets/CHPWestDunbartonshire/ Palliative_Care_Health_Needs_Assessment_Report_29th_Sept_20091.pdf
Walsh, P. N. (2008) Assessment and Employment of People with Intellectual Disabilities, in Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Service Providers' Guide (eds J. Hogg and A. Langa), The British Psychological Society and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
Walsh, P. N. (2008) Outside the Box: Assessment for Life and Work in the Community, in Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Service Providers' Guide (eds J. Hogg and A. Langa), The British Psychological Society and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK
National Implementation Group (2004) For example: Report of the short-life working group on Hospital Closure and Service Reprovision Easy-Read Summary The same as you?
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/01/18742/31614
The Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland (2009) Scottish Housing Digest – Housing Policy at Your Fingertips.
http://www.cih.org/scotland/policy/Scottish-Housing-Digest-April-2009.pdf
Briefings for CIH in Scotland by Newhaven Research. It is produced every six months to keep CIH in Scotland members up to speed on major developments in housing and related policy areas across the UK. The digest is structured to give a broad overview followed by consideration of developments in other parts of the UK, then a look at developments in Scotland.
http://www.cih.org/your_location/scot/index.php?menu26nav=visible
Scottish Government (2006) Working for a change? The same as you? National Implementation Group. Report of the short-life working group on Employment (2003): available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/12/18575/29596
Scottish Government (2006) Make My Day! The Same as You? National Implementation Group: Report of the Day Services Sub Group.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/04/24103440/0
Iles, K. (2003) Becoming a Learning Organization. A Precondition for Person Centred Services to People with Learning Difficulties. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities ,7, 1, 65-77
The Commissioning Friend for Mental Health Service: A Resource Guide for Health and Social Care Commissioners. National Institute for Mental Health in England/ Modernisation Agency National Primary and Care Trust (2005)
www.natpact.nhs.uk/uploads/2005_Jan/MH_Print_Version.pdf
Sanderson, H.; Kennedy, J.; Ritchie, P. and Goodwin, G. (1998) People, plans and possibilities: exploring person centred planning. Edinburgh: Scottish Human Services
Felce, D. (2000). Quality of life in supported housing in the community: A review of research. Exeter, United Kingdom: University of Exeter, Centre for Evidence-based Social Services.
Hatton, C., Emerson, E., Robertson, J., Henderson, D., and Cooper, J. (1996). Factors associated with staff support and user lifestyle in services for people with multiple disabilities: A path analytic approach. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 40, 466-477.
