Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the Single Assessment Process? (SAP)
- What is the Cheshire Single Assessment Process (CSAP) project?
- Who will deliver the Cheshire Single Assessment Process (CSAP) solution?
- What software will be used?
- Which Cheshire organisations are involved?
- Who has overall responsibility for the project?
- Is there a Cheshire Single Assessment Process (CSAP) project team?
- Who should I contact?
- When was the contract signed?
- How many people will be trained?
- When did the project go live?
1. What is the Single Assessment Process (SAP)?
Single Assessment Process (SAP) is a key element of the National Service Framework (NSF) for older people. The aim is to put the older person at the centre to respect them as individuals and to arrange care around their needs.
There are two key elements to the successful implementation of Single Assessment Process, one strand relates to operational staff across a range of professionals working together. The second strand relates to the transmission of assessment and integrated care plan information between professionals supported by an electronic system. The combination of the transmission of information between professionals and organisations, within one standardised, high quality electronic document, reduces duplication of work/assessments. This multi-agency working benefits both client and professional.
CSAP stands for Cheshire Single Assessment Process and will be the Cheshire Health and Social Care Community’s interim solution for the provision of Single Assessment Process. Cheshire have opted to use a solution based on a charitable organisation ‘interRAI’s’ solution for a Minimum Data Set for Home Care (MDS-HC) protocols. This gives intelligence to the electronic forms covering a broad range of assessment domains. It has been designed specifically for use with older people with complex care needs by social care professionals in non-institutional settings. Their specific responses to certain items ‘trigger’ reference to 30 client assessment protocols (CAPs), contained in the MDS-HC Manual, guiding the assessor towards good practice.
Following a successful OJEC tender and evaluation process the tender was won by a partnership of contractors namely IBM, Esprit and The Stationary Office (TSO) providing an Internet based hosted solution.
IBM as the prime contractor to Cheshire Health and Social Care Community will provide the overall programme management and direction of the project, and will provide and deliver the hosting platform for the solution.
Esprit, in its capacity as the subcontractor responsible for delivering the Single Assessment Process (SAP) application for the project, will deliver the application and provide the required project management in this regard on behalf of the IBM project team.
The Stationery Office (TSO) has been subcontracted to construct the forms and provide the training. TSO will also contract out the electronic forms work to a company called EMS.
Esprit’s xplatform, EMS’s eForms and interRAI’s MDS-HC software components will be utilised to deliver the software solution. The Contractor will look to use and where necessary, to extend appropriate software components, where they exist, in order to help speed development.
The organisations involved in the Cheshire Health and Social Care Community for the delivery of the CSAP solution are:
Future partners include:
The Cheshire Single Assessment Process (CSAP) project board consisting of senior management representatives from each partner organisation take overall responsibility for the project.
Yes, the following officers have been assigned;
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The contract was signed on Thursday 23 June 2005.
A formal Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU), acknowledging the obligation of the SAP Community to provide support and funding for the project, was agreed and signed off prior to the signing of the contract. The MOU was completed and circulated at the beginning of April. It could not be drawn up any earlier because it had to reflect the final terms and conditions within the contract.
The contract has been through the County Council’s legal department and been reviewed by Eastern Cheshire PCT.
The solution provided is capable of supporting up to 2,000 users.
The IBM hosting environment is scheduled to be available from November 05
The CBT MDS-HC training application is scheduled to rollout from December 05
The CSAP application is scheduled for delivery in January 06
Dependant of the successful user acceptance testing of the application, the projected go-live date from which the rollout will commence is the end of January, beginning of February 06. |