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Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership
Anticipatory Care Planning (ACP) is a process grounded in human rights. It involves working together with your care provider to make decisions about your future care or end-of-life care which are right for you and your loved ones. It's about ensuring that your rights to autonomy, to well-being and to non-discrimination are upheld when it matters most. These are rights protected by our Human Rights Act. This programme, delivered with Midlothian Health and Social Partnership in Scotland (HSCP), was all about ensuring that staff are trained and supported to deliver ACP in line with their legal human rights duties.
How we designed the programme
The programme involved an initial workshop with key stakeholders at HSCP. This included GPs, nurses, care home managers, care staff, commissioners and more. We scoped out some of the things that were working really well in upholding rights through Anticipatory Care Planning (ACP) and where things where more challenging.
On these workshops, staff shared their own experiences of supporting people to plan for their future care. BIHR used these examples to create human rights activities for the follow-up workshops.
About the programme
After the co-production workshop, we developed two full-day, in-person, practice-based human rights and anticipatory care planning workshops.
These workshops covered:
- The Human Rights Act and anticipatory care planning. What are your legal duties?
- The right to private, family life, home and correspondence (Article 8 of our Human Rights Act) and anticipatory care planning. This covered real examples of how to ensure autonomy, well-being and relationships are upheld.
- The right to be free from discrimination (Article 14 of our Human Rights Act) and anticipatory care planning. This covered real examples of how to ensure non-discrimination.
Funding
This project was funded by Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership through their Anticipatory Care Planning work.
The future of the programme
In January 2023, leads from Midlothian HSCP who had seen such an impact locally recommended the programme to Pan Lothian groups.
We ran our first human rights and anticipatory care planning half-day workshop for the Pan Lothian group in March.
We look forward to the next steps and working to embed human rights across across all four areas (East Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian and West Lothian) and beyond.
If you're interested in doing work on human rights and anticipatory care planning- get in touch with us on training@bihr.org.uk.
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The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence
The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence is protected by Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.
The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence
The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence is protected by Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.
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