- Health and Wellbeing
- Personalised Care
Holistic Needs Assessments
A Holistic Needs Assessment can help your health care professional to identify and address your needs and concerns and then develop you a Personalised Care and Support Plan.
A Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA) is a simple questionnaire. It can be carried at any stage of your cancer pathway, on paper or electronically, to help you:
- identify your patient’s concerns
- start a conversation about your needs
- develop a Personalised Care and Support Plan
- share the right information, at the right times for you
- signpost you to relevant services.
What happens at the assessment?
A conversation to discuss the answers
This is an opportunity to talk about your needs and concerns. If you find it helpful this conversation maybe done on the telephone to make it easier for you.
Creating A Personalised Care and Support Plan
You will then create a care plan together which will reflect and address your concerns. To act as a reminder and reflection of your conversation with your health care team member and the agreed actions to help. The completed plan maybe posted out to you at a later date. It can include information to help you self-manage, along with contact details. If you have any queries once it arrives give the healthcare professional who did the assessment a call. Your GP will also be sent an electronic copy.