Themes
IMPACT works in local sites across the UK with four different types of projects (our ‘delivery models’).
As IMPACT continues to grow, we have stepped back and looked across our work and identified several common themes. These were first presented in our General Election Briefing. You can use this page to explore our projects by theme.
Our Themes
Enhancing voice, choice and control
This theme relates to personalisation; however, through engagement with our Co-production Advisory Group and our colleagues, we have decided to call personalisation, ‘enhancing voice, choice, and control’. We felt this better reflects the different ways personalisation is talked about across the four nations.
Ensuring people stay healthy, connected, and well at home
People have a right to lead good and independent lives at home. Everyone knows that we need more preventative action, but it can be really difficult to achieve this in practice, in a system designed with crisis-focused, episodic approaches, in which stretched services have to prioritise meeting the most urgent needs. Policy in each of the four nations highlights the importance of prevention but it still feels a long way from the mainstream reality.
Creating the workforce we need – now and in the future
This theme is about workforce planning and development. We view the workforce as regulated and non-regulated services, planned and provided by people in paid and unpaid positions (too many and too diverse to list). This view aligns with efforts in the sector to develop workforce priorities that face up to the current and future challenges.
Building on the strengths of people and communities
Building on the strengths of people and communities is the term we use at IMPACT to describe what are often called strengths or asset-based approaches. At its heart, this is about changing the relationships between people, communities and services.
Making integration a reality – starting with the person
Integration between health and social care has been much promoted as an answer to many of the challenges we face in both sectors including the fragmented nature of services, and the lack of joined-up support provided to people.