Issue - meetings

To note the report.

The Interim Corporate Director for Commissioning and Improvement introduced the report which set out the recent commissioning activity.

Officers responded to Members’ comments and requests for clarification, details included:

• The new St Martin’s Extra Care Home in Gillingham was on target to a be opened in September 2024 and would provide 55 units of extra care housing, with Care Dorset as the care provider.
• Referrals into Adult Social Care currently came from all parts of the health and adult social care system and it was essential to have conversations through the Integrated Care Partnership to ensure that the correct professionals were making referrals to re-able somebody before a situation could reach before “crisis point”.
• All referrals went through the access and assessment team where it would be triaged to understand the nature of the request and understand if further intervention was required and it would be this point where the reablement service would be considered as part of the assessment process.
• Officers would welcome feedback on how to improve the referral process to achieve better outcomes.
• The average stay in reablement beds was 6 weeks and settings operated a 1:3 ratio in terms of staffing to support these beds – each support worker supported three people.
• Reablement sought to create a domestic environment to better support the transition back home and in some cases a small domiciliary care package could be offered where appropriate.
• With regard to Sidney Gale House, Care Dorset were working with residents and their families to find suitable alternative accommodation prior to any redevelopment taking place and were having conversations with the Council surrounding this matter, including the proposal for the Council to rebuild it to a modern standard and lease back to Care Dorset, although there were conversations happening to establish alternative methods. An update on this would be provided to a future meeting of the shareholder committee.

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