Luton CCG is one of 37 sites selected to receive Patient Activation Measure licences

Measuring Patient Activation forms a core element of the NHS Five Year Forward View’s ambition for the NHS to become better at helping people to manage their own health by ‘staying healthy, making informed choices of treatment, managing conditions and avoiding complications’.

In April 2016, NHS England invited applications for free Patient Activation licences from key NHS change programmes (including new care model vanguards, integrated personal commissioning demonstrator sites, test beds and integration pioneers), CCGs, local authorities and third sector organisations providing primary care services.

Applications were assessed on how they will use the PAM tool to support people to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their long-term conditions more effectively. You can read more about NHS England’s vision in the patient activation narrative.

All of these sites, in partnership with other organisations, will use the PAM tool to measure levels of patient activation in their local areas, tailor interventions and support people to manage their own health.

 

Luton CCG

Proposal title: Luton’s joint approach to understanding and enhancing individual’s activation levels to support self-management

Partner organisation(s): Luton Borough Council, Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust, East London Foundation Trust, Healthwatch Luton, Patent Reference Group Luton and Live well Luton

The ‘Better Together’ Programme in Luton aims to bring together collective resource and action to support the population to stay well through large scale change among commissioners, providers and the residents towards choices and options that maintain and improve health and wellbeing. This includes a range of programmes such as Integrated Personal Commissioning, Social Prescription, Social Investment Bond for homelessness and housing, multi-disciplinary teams and long-term condition management to provide intensive support.  All these projects aim to shift towards self-care and PAM will be used as a consistent measure to assess change and impact.

PAM will be used as a measure of a person’s knowledge, skills and confidence to enable better care planning/support by understanding each person’s starting point and tailoring support accordingly. The programme will embed the use of PAM as standard practice for cohorts where there is an established evidence base.

Cambridgeshire community services will use the PAM tool to support the self-management and engagement of patients from a range of cohorts including people with long-term conditions such as diabetes, COPD, heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. The Better Together programme will use PAM with a cohort of patients that can benefit from intensive case management in assisting individuals’ self-care, maintain health and minimise risk of hospital admission.

Luton CCG (part of the Integrated Personal Commissioning Programme)

 

Full details of how all the 37 organisations will use the PAM licences is available here.