An Intellectual Disability Outcomes Framework for improving the quality of services for people with intellectual disability

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has produced a report and outcomes framework recently. They’ve reviewed the three outcomes frameworks that commissioners should be taking into consideration:

• NHS Outcomes Framework
• Public Health Outcomes Framework
• Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework.

The college has distilled the three outcomes frameworks into five domains.

1. Preventing people from dying prematurely.
2. Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term needs and improving the wider determinants of health.
3. Helping people recover from episodes of ill health or injury, and delaying or reducing the need for care.
4. Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care.
5. Safeguarding vulnerable adults and caring for people in a safe environment.