Choice and Self Management
We recognise that choice is essential for Service Users and attempt to advance these principles throughout our operations.
We ensure that every Service User who receives our service has positively opted to use our organisation.
We provide Service Users with the opportunity to exercise choice about the workers with whom they interact and will change the worker when the Service User requests it.
Improve the quality of life.
When people feel they have control over their care, they are more likely to be satisfied with the services they receive.
Improve health outcomes
Engage your service users and afford them the opportunity to have a say in their care, often as part of the process, to encourage person-centred care.
Promote independence
Choice and control can promote independence, well-being, and a sense of empowerment.
Support a person's individual path in life.
Freedom of choice supports a person in continuing their path in life according to their ambitions and capacities.
Benefit healthcare professionals
Involving patients in decisions around their care helps to allocate resources correctly.
The Care Act promotes individual choice and control. It also includes other principles, such as:
Strengths-based approach
Transparency
Whole family/holistic
Maximise a person's involvement
Recognise fluctuating needs
Appropriateness
Proportionality