Policies

The following policies are applied by all staff within the county council’s Adults and Transition Services. All policies and procedures are subject to review as legislation and best practice changes.

Care and Treatment Reviews and Transforming Care

Transforming Care is a national initiative aimed at ensuring that children, young people and adults with a learning disability and / or Autism are not admitted to specialist hospitals because of their mental health needs or behaviours, unless it is absolutely necessary.

To make sure this happens, all people with learning disability and / or autism should be on a risk register (if they consent) and should have a Care and Treatment Review before they are admitted.

To find out more about these and Northamptonshire's procedures for this see Care and Treatment Reviews.

Continuing Healthcare

• National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care November 2012

Deferred Payment

• Deferred payment agreement policy - April 2015 (PDF 797KB)

Personalisation, eligibility and assessment and charging for services

• Assessment and eligibility policy 2015 - effective from 1 April 2015 (PDF 484KB)
• Fees and charges policy for adult social care (PDF 1MB)
• Personalisation policy 2015 (PDF 808 KB)

Equality Impact Assessments

Please see our published Equality Impact Assessments.

MAPPA

• Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) (PDF 274KB)

Medicines Management

•  Policy and Procedure for Medicines Management in the Domiciliary setting (PDF 288 KB)

Mental Capacity Act

• Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice

Safeguarding

• See Safeguarding adults procedures and forms page

Transport

• NASS Transport Policy v2 - October 19 (PDF 592KB)