Postgraduate Course: Personalisation: providing individual choice and control over support (ISSH11009)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Health |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Personalisation is an umbrella term that describes the choice and control that an individual has over their support. It puts a strong emphasis on early intervention and prevention. Key factors within personalisation are self directed support, direct payments, individual budgets (setting individual needs using different funding sources) and personal budgets (individual budgets using funds only from local authorities).
The need for health and social care services to be 'personalised' to meet the needs, concerns and outcomes of individual service users and carers is a cornerstone of current health and social care policy across the UK. The term personalisation encapsulates a range of activity from efforts to engage service users and carers in decision making about their care and support individually and collectively to the devolution of resources to individuals to purchase their own support. Mechanisms to personalise social services have been in place for some years and are increasingly being applied within health, with personalisation seen as being essential to deliver on key improvement objectives: person centredness, quality and efficiency.
The drive towards personalisation has come both from the disability rights movement and the move to modernise health and social care services and as a consequence there is wide divergence in practice and considerable debate as to appropriate models of implementation. Further, the approach has been subject to rigorous theoretical debate, with the implications of the approach for service users, carers, practitioners, gender equality and whole health and social care systems discussed.
This course supports senior health and social care professionals involved in the implementation and development of personalised approaches. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. A critical understanding of the different theoretical, political and policy drivers towards personalisation.
2. Appreciation of the different ways in which personalisation has been implemented in practice with different client groups, including people with communication difficulties and limited capacity
3. Understanding of the challenges and supports to the implementation of personalisation in practice.
4. An appreciation of the research and practice evidence as to the impact of a move towards personalisation on individual service users and carers, staff, and whole systems.
5. A critical understanding of the role that personalisation can play in supporting improvement and integration within health and social care.
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Assessment Information
| This course is assessed by an essay (4,000 to 5,000 words). |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Heather Wilkinson
Tel: (0131 6)51 1832
Email: H.Wilkinson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Nikki Pakarian
Tel: (0131 6)50 3890
Email: Nikki.Pakarian@ed.ac.uk |
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