Personalised care & support planning
Supporting integrated care for people with health and social care needs
Find more about the characters used in our tool
The characters developed for this tool have physical, mental and social care issues and are eligible for personal budgets for health and/or social care. Their journey's through the system and their interaction with different services, clinicians and professionals is designed to demonstrate how people with complex health and social care needs can experience a joined up approach to personalised care and support planning that improves health and wellbeing outcomes.
Choose a character from the list below and find out more about them from their profiles. You can also navigate the stages of their personalised care and support planning journey to find out how each stage works for them.
Further characters will be added as they are developed to illustrate how this can work for people with different health and social care needs.
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Michaela
A person with complex mental, physical health and social care needs
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Kathy
A person with dementia
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Jim
An elderly person with complex health and social care needs
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Millie
A young person with special educational needs
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Imran
A person with mental health needs
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Ted
A person with a mild learning disability and autistic trait previously detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act.
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Sarah
A 63 year old white British female diagnosed with Stage 3 lymphoma.
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Lewis
A 16 year old attending the post 16 unit of a special needs school.
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Alex
A 47 year old female diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer.

Workforce implications
Personalised care & support planning within the workforce

Multi-disciplinary teams
Models of care for those with complex issues