Integrated care
It was within the Government Scheme 2013-2016 thanks to Agreement GOV/120/2013 to create the Interdepartmental Interaction Plan for health and social services.
Afterwards, the designed model was studied in depth and by means of Agreement GOV/28/2014 from 25th February, the Interdepartmental Social and Healthcare and Interaction Plan (PIAISS in Catalan) was created as the Government’s wishes to be a step ahead regarding health and social services interactions and bet on a care model centred around people.
Within the Government’s Plan for its XII period in office, passed on 25th September 2018, the need to unroll a single strategy for comprehensive social and healthcare due to the population’s health and social needs is clear, specially for the elderly or people with complicated requirements. This strategy must promote personal autonomy and help stay in the usual surroundings as well as aid with social inclusion. In order to reach this goal, reinforcing the value in comprehensive care for people and the efficiency and quality of the provided model value is needed, at the same time as fitting in health and social services, which determined the need to redefine PIAISS and substitute with the new Comprehensive Social and Healthcare Scheme (PAISS in Catalan).
The Foundation supports the Comprehensive Social and Health Care Agency in the technology and information system fields.
SHIB [HISS] – Social and Health Innovation Hub
The SHIB is a public instrument of the Catalan health system and the public social services network. Its main goal is to improve the quality of life of people with social and healthcare needs through innovative projects.
As members of the SHIB Executive Committee, we participate in a network of key collaborators within the social and healthcare innovation ecosystem. This network enables us to bring our projects closer to the stakeholders who can benefit the most from them and to accelerate their development.
At the same time, it allows different organisations to learn about and engage with projects being developed in Catalonia that can provide solutions to the challenges they face in their daily work.
II Strategic Scheme for Social Services (PESS) 2021–2024
The Department propels the II Strategic Scheme for Social Services (PESS in Catalan) 2021–24 as a reference framework for the Catalan Social Services System (SCSS in Catalan) for the next four years with the aim of replying to the socialdemographic challenges the current welfare state must face:
- Social inequality
- Women in poverty or exclusion risk
- Increase in ageing
- Excessively aged population and disabilities
- Diversity in Catalan society and the households that constitute it
Structure of the Catalan Social Services System
According to Law 12/2007 of Social Services, the Catalan Social Services System (SCSS) constitutes the set of resources, services, technologies, economy, programmes, equipments, and prevention, care, and social promotion activities. Public and private social services under the Generalitat’s management, local entities, and other administrations are a part of it. All of these services shape the Public Care Social Services Network.
Basic social services (SSB in Catalan) are organised by territories into basic social service areas (105 ABSS) amongst counties or amongst a minimum of 20,000 inhabitants. They are the first tier of SCSS care and a guarantee of most proximity for users in as much as help is granted in the territory closest to citizens. The professionals who are part of it inform, guide, diagnose and evaluate, dictate benefits, detect risky situations in order to act preventively, and carry out community projects to socially integrate people and groups at risk.
Specialised social services are organised according to type to answer situations and needs that require a technical specialisation or certain resources.
On the other hand, a Third Social Sector exists: the set of private non-profit entities, insurants or service providers, who work for social inclusion and cohesion with special care towards society’s most vulnerable groups. Catalonia assembles more than 7,500 non-profit entities that work in the social field and provide services to over a million people.
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Integraded care projects
Integrated Care Model of Aran
Implementing a unified response to the health and social needs of the population, promoting their active participation in decision-making
ADMIT
Starting from the understanding that a person’s health and social aspects go hand in hand and cannot be separated. For this reason, care is not designed based on the available services, but on the person and their individual needs.
The goal is to create an individualized care plan for each person, coordinating all the support they may need: from prevention and treatment to daily living assistance and the promotion of autonomy.
SISS Manresa
Deploy a new model of integrated social and healthcare services in the capital of Bages to coordinate the resources of the social services and healthcare portfolios by incorporating technological tools.
