Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Adult Social Care

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/213

Contact: Ian Bottomley, Lead Commissioner – Age Well, ian.bottomley@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director: Adult Social Care (CA8).

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

a)    Approve the new care home banding model and note the engagement of the market and partners in its development.

b)    Approve the implementation of an integrated purchasing framework with the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Boad and to implement the new Care Home Banding model.

c)     Approve the revision of the s75 NHS 2006 agreement with the ICB to support implementation of the model and to delegate authority to agree further amendments to this agreement to the Corporate Director of Adult Social Care in consultation with the Director of Law and Governance

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report recommending that the Council approved the principle of entering into an integrated care homes purchasing framework with the  Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (ICB).

The purchasing framework would source residential and nursing home beds for over 18-year-olds in Oxfordshire and within a 10-mile radius of the County boundary. This would cover adults who had been assessed as eligible under either the Care Act 2014 or under the NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) Framework and who require a care home placement to meet their care needs.

Councillor Tim Bearder, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, presented the report and explained the background to the proposals. He said that a further key decision on the contractual arrangements would be required when the financial arrangements and other details had been finalised.

The Chair welcomed the proposals and, in particular, the integration with the Council’s health care partners that had been developed.

The Corporate Director for Adult Services then answered a number of questions on the framework agreement which would be introduced.

The Executive Director People, Transformation and Performance referred to two recent reports, one of which had cited Oxfordshire as the best performing authority in the South-East of England for availability of home care and the other which had given two examples of best practice in Oxfordshire in dealing with patients being discharged from hospital.

Councillor Bearder moved and Councillor Levy seconded the recommendations and they were approved.

RESOLVED to approve:-

a.     the new care home banding model and note the engagement of the market and partners in its development.

b.     the implementation of an integrated purchasing framework with the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Boad and to implement the new Care Home Banding model.

c.     the revision of the s75 NHS 2006 agreement with the ICB to support implementation of the model and to delegate authority to agree further amendments to this agreement to the Corporate Director of Adult Social Care in consultation with the Director of Law and Governance.