End of life care modelling tools
The National End of Life Care Intelligence Network has teamed up with partners to bring together a suite of tools to support end of life care commissioning and planning.
The tools
What do the tools do?
Together the tools enable commissioners and providers of end of life care services to:
- Identify the end of life care needs of their population over a 10-year period (Whole Systems Partnership Cohort Model)
- Assess what workforce skills are required to ensure quality care provision (Skills for Health Workforce Functional Analysis)
- Establish how many people dying in hospital could reasonably end life in an alternative care setting and provide costings for Alternative Care Pathways (Yorkshire and the Humber Commissioner Financial Model).
Why have they been developed?
These tools were developed to support organisations to achieve the vision of the National End of Life Care Strategy and the NHS QIPP agenda of improving quality and productivity through innovation. They:
- provide a bridge between policy and service redesign through analytical support;
- provide commissioners and planners with a better understanding of local need for end of life care services and model the expected impact of service redesign;
- explore the workforce required and expected impact of improvements on costs and enable options to be compared.
How should they be used?
These tools are best used in service planning by clinicians and commissioners working together. Click on the links above for more information about each of the tools and how to use them.
Click here to see how the tools relate to each other.
Partners
The End of Life Care modelling tools were developed by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network in partnership with:
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