Issue - meetings

To seek authorisation for the adoption of the Strategy for the Commissioning of Residential and Nursing Care Provision in Gloucestershire and the development of District Locality Commissioning Plans for care homes.

Cllr Roger Wilson, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care; Commissioning, sought authorisation for the adoption of the Council’s Strategy for the Commissioning of Residential and Nursing Care Provision in Gloucestershire and the development of District Locality Commissioning Plans for care homes.

Having considered all of the information, including known proposals, alternative options and reasons for recommendations, Cabinet noted the report and,

RESOLVED to: -

1)    Adopt the council’s strategy for the commissioning of residential and nursing care provision in Gloucestershire, as set out in Appendix (1), and

2)    Authorise the Director of Integration, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Commissioning, to develop District Locality Commissioning Plans for care homes.  

Cllr Roger Wilson, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care; Commissioning, sought authorisation for the adoption of the Council’s Strategy for the Commissioning of Residential and Nursing Care Provision in Gloucestershire and the development of District Locality Commissioning Plans for care homes.

Cllr Wilson referred to the Cabinet decision agreed in June 2018, to consider ways of encouraging residents in need of Adult Social Care to remain in their homes for as long as possible, rather than going into long-term residential care. He stated, that following on from that decision, officers had been requested to undertake consultation with care home providers, older people and care home residents to comment on the Council’s Draft Strategy for the Commissioning of Residential and Nursing Care Provision in Gloucestershire.

The report presented at this meeting included the outcomes of a consultation on the Draft Strategy, (carried out by Healthwatch Gloucestershire and Evolving Communities).  

Reading out the key issues identified by the consultation, Cllr Wilson stated that the Council proposed to develop locality plans for each of the key communities in Gloucestershire which would set out the Council and the Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG’s) key commissioning priorities for care home requirements over the next 5- 10 years. The locality plans will provide care home providers with a clear understanding of the commissioning needs of the Council and the CCG. It was reported that the plans would need to reflect the current care home market supply position and the need for more specialist and short term care home placements. The plans to be developed in partnership with care home providers at local level.

Having considered all of the information, including known proposals, alternative options and reasons for recommendations, Cabinet noted the report and,

RESOLVED to: -

1)    Adopt the council’s strategy for the commissioning of residential and nursing care provision in Gloucestershire, as set out in Appendix (1), and

2)    Authorise the Director of Integration, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Commissioning, to develop District Locality Commissioning Plans for care homes.