Understand and act on demand to fast-forward social care
Understand and act on demand to fast-forward social care
In a recent blogpost responding the to the announcement of £5.4bn funding for health and social care, my colleague Michael…
Delivering better outcomes and saving money, by tackling complexity and maximising independence.
To maximise independence and deliver better outcomes, a person’s needs should be addressed by the entire system, but the current model does not reflect this reality. The adult social care system (led by local councils’ Departments of Adult Social Services) is often set up as a series of silos. But the consequences of looking inwards and focussing only on what can be directly controlled – rather than across the whole system to see what might be influenceable elsewhere – are poorer outcomes for people and higher costs for the taxpayer.
The ‘5 Fast-Forwards’ are the five fundamental shifts that leaders in adult social care need to make to change their systems for the better and create a sustainable model. Making these shifts:
The 5 Fast-Forwards are based on our EDGEWORK approach.
EDGEWORK is IMPOWER’s unique approach to understanding and delivering change in complex systems. As public services are complex rather than complicated, this requires a different mindset, an ability to work with people - not just datasets - and unique methods and tools. Using EDGEWORK, we have changed behaviours, shaped public demand and improved outcomes while reducing costs.
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