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Better Together: Introducing our draft System Models of Care

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Better Together is our promise to work together - with service users, with the public, with health & care staff with our partner organisations - to really thoroughly review how and where we provide our services, to ensure we improve quality and make the best use of the resources we have.

Thousands of voices have been involved so far:

Designing new ways of working for health services in Powys is a complex task, particularly when considering the differing needs of our patients and service users, our staff and our interactions with partner organisations. To help with this, we have used your feedback to create System Models of Care. These are: 

  • The Overarching Vision for Physical and Mental health 

  • Social Model for Health and Wellbeing 

  • The Integrated Community model 

  • The Mental Health Model  

What is a System Model of Care? 

A System Model of Care seeks to describe the system within which our services will work and how people will experience them. They do not seek to describe the structure of a service, or how operationally the model will be delivered. 

The models help us develop the options for delivering the service, ensuring that however we structure our services in the future, that they deliver the aspirations within the models. 

The Overarching Vision for Physical and Mental Health 

Our overarching vision for physical and mental health services in Powys describes our ambition for people to be cared for in the most appropriate place to meet their needs. It also describes the ambition that we want to enable people to receive most of their care at home or in their local community. 

The model also describes the concept of Rural Regional Centres, which would be places where several services can be housed to provide more specialist care and then utilising out of county services only when most needed. 

The Social Model of Health and Wellbeing

At the heart of Better Together is the need to have a “whole person” approach to health and wellbeing that shifts the focus from treating illness to preventing ill health and promoting positive health and wellbeing. This reflects those broader determinants of health - social, environmental, economic, cultural - so that we focus on prevention and early intervention, community empowerment, collaboration and equity.  In the short term this aims to help the NHS by reducing demand, in the long term it achieves our goals for improved population health outcomes across the life course.

The Integrated Community Model

Our next model focuses specifically on how we can move to a more integrated approach to the delivery of physical health community services. At its heart are our ambitions to: provide integrated place-based, person-centred, digitally enabled and proactive care; prevent unnecessary hospital admission and supporting timely discharge; and, ensure more seamless care & treatment.

The Mental Health Model

This model seeks to improve our approach to mental health and wellbeing. The ambition is for people in Powys to easily access and receive a timely, seamless, holistic mental health service centered around their needs; the service will be modern, safe and sustainable, and delivered by a skilled, integrated, multidisciplinary workforce that promotes hope & choice and empowers patients to be at the heart of their care and treatment.

You can read and print the System Models of Care in this downloadable document.