I-CARE & Share

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

What is I-CARE & Share?

I-CARE & Share is a programme across Cheshire and Merseyside seeking to improve personalised care planning for care home residents and palliative care patients, ensuring the system is empowered to meet their wishes in providing care.

The programme is anchored through its acronym:

I - Identify patients at risk of futile hospital admission

C - Communicate sensitively with patients, family and carers

A - Anticipatory Care Plan agreed

R - Resuscitation decision put in place

E - Escalation Plan agreed

S - Share with key providers

The programme seeks to strengthen each aspect of the above. This includes the standardisation of a Cheshire and Merseyside personalised care planning package that meets patient, clinician, digital and organisational requirements to ensure personalised care planning is robust and effective. This currently includes:

I-CARE & Share personalised care planning templates (EMIS and System One) for codes capture
I-CARE & Share Personalised Care Plan
North West Unified Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (uDNACPR) form

Please view the following pages for further information and resources on how you can get involved and improve the impact of personalised care planning for our residents.