Scotland’s House of Care – Collaborative approaches to embed “More than Medicine” within Primary Care Pathways.

Introduction

The House of Care framework provides a visual model of a house built around collaborative care planning conversations. This enables people with long term conditions and their clinicians to work together to determine the shape and the support needed to enable them to live well in their communities. 

The House of Care programme has been widely applied in primary care in Scotland and is befitting of the country’s ambition for personalised, Realistic Medicine within an integrated, health, social and community landscape.

The house metaphor describes the components needed to make coordinated, personalised care planning a reality.

The foundation of the house, the informal and formal sources of care support available in the community - “More than Medicine” is a key element of this model.

Session overview

The overarching aim of this is to raise awareness of the House of Care model in practice, it’s alignment to national policy, the key components require to ensure its effectiveness and how it has evolved in Scotland since its introduction in 2014.

With a focus on the foundation of the house, the session will share the role and scope of Scotland’s Third Sector in the support and delivery of informal and formal sources of community-based support and resources.

Approaches to Community asset mapping and resource directory, raising awareness of community resources amongst primary care teams i.e. information sharing events, role of Community Link Worker initiatives, relationship building and ensuring local support matches identified needs of population will be discussed during the session.

Themes – third sector, social prescribing, self-management, collaboration, co-production.

Target audience

Healthcare professionals, primary care teams, policy leads, community partners, people with lived experience, researchers.

Format

A workshop style session with scene setting presentation followed by world café style discussions.