Effective care planning for our most vulnerable patients ensures patient wishes are made central to their care, reduces carer stress, facilitates tracking of care and averts urgent care crisis.

Cheshire and Merseyside ICB personalised care planning package for primary and community care settings – I-CARE & Share

I-CARE & Share combines an EMIS template, which requires installation on respective GP EMIS systems with a mergeable Personalised Care Plan (PCP) containing the relevant palliative care codes to support sharing of information. The form has been specifically designed to be used as an electronic tool within EMIS and equivalent systems to enable sharing of information.

Once completed electronically it may be printed to provide patient and carer copies.

When used as recommended the I-CARE & Share package meets the requirements for:

• Gold standard End of Life care
• Palliative care
• Primary Care Network DES for care home residents
• Complex patients with long term conditions
• Use by GPs, nurses, pharmacists and care coordinators
• Business intelligence capture
• Data sharing via shared and summary care record
• Electronic Palliative Care Coordination System (EPaCCS)

The Personalised Care Plan should be shared with the patient, carers, GP-out-of-hours service and Ambulance Service.

Key Files

• C&M End of Life and Personalised Care Planning Template (EMIS template .html file) (zipped .html file) – Installation required
• C&M Personalised Care Plan (EMIS .ewdt file) (zipped .ewdt file) – Installation required
• C&M Personalised Care Plan (PDF file) – example of Personalised Care Plan for information. Please use the above EMIS .ewdt file for patient use within primary care. The Personalised Care Plan merges fields from the EMIS template and is designed to be completed in electronic form.
• C&M Personalised Care Plan (word doc)
• C&M ICB I-CARE & Share Personalised Care Plan position statement (.pdf file) (PDF file)
• C&M PCP Support package presentation (PowerPoint file)
• Gold Standard Framework Patient Tracker (Excel file)
• Cheshire and Merseyside Personalised Care Planning  (word.doc logo and acronym)
• Logo and acronym (PNG file)
• EMIS Template Screenshot (word doc)

How to install an EMIS Word Document (.ewdt): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMYV_CuhqHo

How to install an EMIS template (.html): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpCAME-ro7k

To register for support within your Place please contact your Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care (PEOLC)

Cheshire and Merseyside Lead:  peter.chamberlain@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk

For signposting support from the PEoLC Network please contact Carmel Wiseman, Clinical Network Programme Manager:

m:   07702430812  e:  carmel.wiseman@nhs.net