Issue - meetings

Cllr Carole Allaway-Martin, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Commissioning sought authority to procure the appointment of a neutral vendor managed service supplier and an urgent and emergency care improvement partner to assist in implementing the findings from the Gloucestershire Urgent and Emergency Care diagnostic.

Having considered all of the information, Cabinet noted the report and

RESOLVED to:

1. Approve, without further competition, the award of a call-off contract under the Association of North East Councils Limited’s NEPRO³ Framework Agreement, to the sole neutral vendor managed service supplier, namely Bloom Procurement Services Limited (Bloom). The terms of such call off shall include the power for Bloom to appoint, as its subcontractor, an urgent and emergency care improvement partner to assist the council and Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (the ICB) in implementing the findings identified in the Gloucestershire Urgent and Emergency Care Diagnostic described in paragraph 8 of this report.

Such call-off contract shall continue for an initial period of 15 months and include an option to extend its term for a further period of not more than 6 months.

2. Delegate authority to the Executive Director of Adult Social Care, Wellbeing and Communities, in consultation with the Cabinet Memberfor Adult Social Care Commissioning, to:

(a) engage in a selection process with Bloom to identify and then appoint an urgent and emergency care improvement partner to act as Bloom’s subcontractor under the call-off contract described in Recommendation 1 above.

(b) determine whether to exercise the option to extend the term of the call-off contract described in Recommendation 1 above for a further period of 6 months on the expiry of the initial 15-monthperiod.

3. Delegate authority to the Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of Corporate Resources in consultation with the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Change to enter into a Section 256 agreement with the Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board to cover the transfer of funding to support said contract.

8.1       Cllr Carole Allaway-Martin, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Commissioning sought authority to procure the appointment of a neutral vendor managed service supplier and an urgent and emergency care improvement partner to assist in implementing the findings from the Gloucestershire Urgent and Emergency Care diagnostic.

8.2       Leaders across health and social care had previously agreed to commission the Local Government Association and a company called Newton Europe to work to understand how we could improve UEC in our county.  Their diagnostic had given clear areas of focus that span local NHS organisations and GCC. Like many areas of the country the UEC system had been under pressure, and this had resulted in queuing ambulances outside our hospitals, waits for therapy and packages of care and, at times, substandard care. 

8.3       It was proposed that Cabinet take this decision and therefore commission the improvement partner on behalf of the ICB for reasons of expediency.  The ICB and GCC were keen to start to implement the transformation programme and therefore deliver improvements before winter 2023.

8.4       The contract value was £8.25m and would run for 15 months but could be extended for a further 6 months.  This funding had been drawn from NHS national funding that had been allocated to Gloucestershire to improve capacity and flow in urgent and emergency care.  Therefore, there would be no deduction from existing resources dedicated to delivering direct patient care, adult social services or funding for recurrent staff or services.

Having considered all of the information, Cabinet noted the report and

RESOLVED to:

1. Approve, without further competition, the award of a call-off contract under the Association of North East Councils Limited’s NEPRO³ Framework Agreement, to the sole neutral vendor managed service supplier, namely Bloom Procurement Services Limited (Bloom). The terms of such call off shall include the power for Bloom to appoint, as its subcontractor, an urgent and emergency care improvement partner to assist the council and Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (the ICB) in implementing the findings identified in the Gloucestershire Urgent and Emergency Care Diagnostic described in paragraph 8 of this report.

Such call-off contract shall continue for an initial period of 15 months and include an option to extend its term for a further period of not more than 6 months.

2. Delegate authority to the Executive Director of Adult Social Care, Wellbeing and Communities, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Commissioning, to:

(a) engage in a selection process with Bloom to identify and then appoint an urgent and emergency care improvement partner to act as Bloom’s subcontractor under the call-off contract described in Recommendation 1 above.

(b) determine whether to exercise the option to extend the term of the call-off contract described in Recommendation 1 above for a further period of 6 months on the expiry of the initial 15-monthperiod.

3. Delegate authority to the Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of Corporate Resources in consultation with the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8