The consultation focuses on care and support for adults and on assisting the continued development of personalisation by helping people to choose services better suited to their needs. The document covers the rationale for improving information, how assessment and care planning should be undertaken (the principles), what information should be commonly shared and with whom and the IT approaches that would enable this to take place within appropriate arrangements for consent, confidentiality and security. The consultation will be of interest to the general public, commissioners of health, social care and wider community support services, the voluntary and independent sectors.
Public consultation events will be held:
22 January 2009 London
27 January 2009 Newcastle
29 January 2009 Nottingham
3 February 2009 London
5 February 2009 Manchester
11 February 2009 Bristol
17 February 2009 Leeds
19 February 2009 Birmingham
For further information about these Events please visit the Event pages of our website
Download the full Consultation paper at the link below