Agenda item

The Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing presented a report, which outlined the preferred options for the Residential Care and Day Services for Older People Commissioning Reviews, with a view to proceeding to public and staff consultation on the preferred options.

Resolved that:

1)              Complex care and residential reablement be commissioned through the Authority’s internal residential service and concentrate residential respite within the internal service, unless service users chose to access respite or complex care in the independent sector;

2)              The Authority proceed to a 12 week public and staff consultation on the proposal to maintain a mixed delivery model of internal and external services and apply a greater degree of specialism on internal beds;

3)              The Authority proceed to a 12 week public and staff consultation on the proposal to transform the day service so it focusses on higher dependency, and complex / dementia care.