Care Profiles Development Programme (CPDP)
The CPDP was set up in Autumn 2010 to develop the concept and methodology of care profiles as a commissioning tool.
Successful innovative work by Liverpool Primary Care Trust in 2010 developed care profiles as a commissioning tool for End of Life (EoL) services. The focus was primary and community care, including care homes.
Care profiles do not compete with care pathways – the two are different and complementary.
Care profiles support the specification of service requirements in respect of skill mix, delivery, quality and outcomes at each stage of a care pathway. Such definition and quantification of resources enables clarity, service redesign and the costing of services.
The cross-sector approach is cost effective, flexible and inclusive, and involves personnel from commissioning, providers, GPs, patients and carers. It also supports GP commissioning.
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Dr Rob Gandy has been appointed as an Honorary Senior Lecturer within the CPDP. Rob was involved in related Department of Health pilot work and was the external consultant for the Liverpool EoL project. He has had a number of papers published relating to care profiles.
The CPDP operates with the Faculty of Health and Social Care and the University Business School to offer:
- Consultancy
- Benchmarking
- Costings
- Research
- Teaching & Training
Conference Posters and Research Publications
Gandy R., Cannon J., Roe B. and Rogers J. (2011) Commissioning End of Life Services Using Care Profiles, Poster Presentation at Help the Hospices Conference, Bournemouth, 26th – 28th September. Help The Hospices 2011
Gandy R., Roe B. and Rogers J. (2011) Using Care Profiles to Augment the End of Life Care Pathway, Poster Presentation at Care Pathways 2011 Conference, London, 21st – 22nd June. Winner of the International Journal of Care Pathways’ poster competition at the Conference. Care Pathways 2011
Gandy R., Roe B. and Rogers J. (2011) Using End of Life Care Profiles to Support Advance Care Planning, Poster Presentation at International Society of Advance Care Planning and End of Life (ACPEL) Care Conference – London, June. ACPEL 2011
Gandy R., Roe B. and Rogers J. (2012) Using Care Profiles to Commission End of Life Services, Primary Health Care Research & Development DOI:10.1017/S1463423611000557
Available from Cambridge Journals
Further Information
For more information about the CPDP or care profiles in general please contact either Dr Rob Gandy, Associate Dean Enterprise, Research & External Relations, through the Faculty of Health and Social Care’s Enterprise and Partnerships Team on cpdenquiries@edgehill.ac.uk
For more information about the Faculty of Health and Social Care’s Evidence-based Practice Research Centre, which contributed to several of the above conference posters and publications, please visit: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/eprc/