My Health, My Care, My Home - healthcare framework for adults living in care homes

Glossary

Advanced Practitioner

A healthcare professional with developed skills and knowledge allowing them to take on expanded roles and scope of practice caring for patients. These come from a range of professional backgrounds such as nursing, pharmacy, paramedics, physiotherapists and occupational therapy.

Allied Health Professional (AHP)

Someone other than a physician, registered nurse, or dentist, trained to provide system-wide care to assess, treat, diagnose and discharge patients. Includes, chiropodists/podiatrists, dietitians, occupational therapists, paramedics, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists.

Anticipatory Care Planning

An approach where people are supported to have meaningful discussions about 'What Matters to Me' in the context of their health and care, providing person-centred, co‑ordinated care, focusing on goals and preferences, whilst offering opportunities to consider realistic treatment and care options.

Care homes

Care homes providing care for adults in Scotland including care homes for older people (aged 65+), adults with learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical and sensory impairment, acquired brain injury, alcohol and drug misuse, and blood-borne virus.

Care Home Liaison Nurse

A registered nurse working alongside the care home to provide specialist support, advice, education and support interventions to the Care Home staff.

Care Home Liaison Service

A multi-disciplinary team who work alongside the care home team to build competence and confidence in meeting the needs of the people living in the home.

Community nursing

Nursing care provided outside of a hospital to people in their own homes, care homes, or close to where they live, in clinics and GP practices across every village, town and city in the country.

COSLA

A councillor-led, cross-party organisation who champions councils' vital work to secure the resources and powers they need. They also work on councils' behalf to focus on the challenges and opportunities they face, and to engage positively with governments and others on policy, funding and legislation.

Early Intervention

Identifying and providing effective early support to people who are at risk of poor outcomes, to prevent problems occurring, or to tackle them head-on when they do, before problems get worse.

Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)

A compact of health and social care providers responsible for adult social care, adult primary health care and unscheduled adult hospital care working towards a set of national health and wellbeing outcomes.

Health Board

NHS Scotland consists of 14 regional NHS Boards responsible for the protection and the improvement of their population's health and for the delivery of frontline healthcare services. There are also 7 Special NHS Boards and 1 public health body who support the regional NHS Boards by providing a range of important specialist and national services.

Health and Social Care Standards

Standards applicable to the NHS and services registered with the Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland, setting out what people should expect when using health, social care or social work services in Scotland.

Health care

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals in allied health fields.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS)

The purpose of Healthcare Improvement Scotland is to enable the people of Scotland to experience the best quality of health and social care. Their broad work programme supports health and social care services to improve.

Local Enhanced Services (LES)

Services that provide additional funding to supplement services already offered within the core GMS (General Medical Services) contract.

Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT)

A group of healthcare and social care professionals, who are members of different disciplines with different skills and expertise (e.g. care workers, podiatrists, dentists, nurses and doctors) that work together to enable the best outcome for the person living in a care home.

National Care Service

The establishment of a National Care Service (NCS), accountable to Scottish Ministers, to create comprehensive community health and social care service that supports people of all ages which is rights-based and people powered.

Near patient/point of care testing

An investigation taken at the time of consultation with instant availability of results to make immediate and informed decisions about patient care.

Out Of Hours (OOH) service

A fundamental part of the healthcare service in Scotland providing support to those who require medical assistance outwith normal GP surgery hours. The out-of-hours period is from 6:30pm to 8am on weekdays and 24 hours at weekends and on bank holidays.

Personal plan

A plan of how care and support will be provided, as agreed in writing between an individual and the service provider. The plan will set out how an individual's assessed needs will be met, as well as their wishes and choices.

Prevention

Preventing deterioration in health and wellbeing through good nutrition, hydration continence, movement and activity, cognitive stimulation and social connections.

Primary care

The first point of contact with the NHS. This includes community based services provided by general practitioners (GPs), community nurses, dentists, dental nurses, optometrists, dispensing opticians, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. It can also be with allied health professionals such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists, midwives and pharmacists.

Realistic medicine

An approach that puts the person at the centre of decisions made about their care, with shared decision making and a personalised approach to care. It also aims to reduce harm, waste and unwarranted variation, whilst acknowledging and managing the inherent risks associated with all healthcare, and championing innovation and improvement.

Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)

The regulator for the social service workforce in Scotland.

Social care

A wide range of non‑medical services provided by local authorities and independent bodies, including from the voluntary sector, to support the social needs of individuals, especially older adults, the vulnerable or those with special needs, to improve their quality of life.

Social worker

Social worker is a statutory role which involves assessing need, managing risk and promoting the wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Stakeholders

Stakeholders are individuals, groups or organisations that are affected by the work or activity of an organisation or service.

Tissue viability

A speciality that primarily considers all aspects of skin and soft tissue wounds including acute surgical wounds, pressure ulcers and leg ulceration.