In March 2023, NHS England launched a Personalised Care and Support Planning Framework to support integrated care systems (ICSs) to understand and create the conditions for sustainable implementation of personalised care and support planning.

In line with this, our Personalised Care Team have developed a draft personalised care and support plan (PCSP), which can be used by teams looking to implement personalised care and support planning.The draft PCSP can be used in part or in its entirety.

If you have any questions, please contact the Personalised Care Team via email: nhsbsolicb.personalisedcare@nhs.net.

In March 2023, NHS England launched a Personal Health Budget Quality Framework to support the implementation of personal health budgets (PHBs) across integrated care systems (ICSs) to build on best practice and realise the improved outcomes and experience of NHS care and support that PHBs can offer for people.

Free online personalised care training is now available from the Personalised Care Institute.

Courses include:

  • Core skills (1 hour)
  • Shared decision making (30 minutes)
  • Personalised care and support planning (45 minutes)
  • Personalised care and support planning – Maternity (30 minutes)
  • Leading personalised care and a junior doctor (1 hour)

Personalised care training is suitable for all colleagues working across Birmingham and Solihull and these courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited with a certificate available upon completion.

Over 1,400 professionals in Birmingham and Solihull have completed at least one of these personalised care modules. If you have completed any of the modules and would be happy to talk to the Personalised Care Team about how these have impacted your work, please contact us via email: nhsbsolicb.personalisedcare@nhs.net

Our Personalised Care Team have been working with Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care System (ICS), as part of a Midlands Training Collaborative, to develop more in-depth personalised care training.

Modules in shared decision making and personalised care and support planning are now available. These courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited and certificates are available upon completion.

More information can be found below:

If you are interested in joining a training session, please contact us at nhsbsolicb.personalisedcare@nhs.net to register your interest in future dates.

An extensive programme of support and development is available to social prescribing link workers and primary care networks.

A welcome pack with useful information and support for health and wellbeing coaches and care co-ordinators is available on the NHS England (NHSE) website.

NHSE have also published workforce development frameworks for the following staff:

Birmingham and Solihull Training Hub have established a peer network for social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches and care coordinators working across Birmingham and Solihull. For more information and to join this network, please email: bsol.traininghub@nhs.net

The personalised care collaborative network on the NHS Futures platform has lots of information and examples of personalised care initiatives across the country and is a great way to connect with others in different parts of country to find out how they are implementing personalised care in their services. To join the platform, visit the NHS Futures website.

Other NHS Futures platforms that may be of interest are:

We want to hear your stories about working with people in a personalised way, including the difference it made to you, your colleagues and the patient.

Please complete this short form to share your story. You can also share your story with our Personalised Care Team via email: nhsbsolicb.personalisedcare@nhs.net.