Issue - meetings

To consider 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:

• One of the key challenges for Care Dorset related to the estate that been inherited from its predecessor and there was a great need to establish what was currently possible in terms of service delivery and level of care as a result of limitations in some settings, and how it could be improved over time. The core focus of this exercise would be to ensure that service users could be in receipt of the best level of care according to their requirements.
• Early in the development of Care Dorset, there had been discussions surrounding the need for bedded reablement support and Care Dorset had been able to acquire and redevelop the building next door to the Castleman develop which had been impactful in a short space of time in terms of avoiding the requirement for long term care for people leaving hospital. The commissioning team monitored length of stay at reablement centres and were comfortable with the average lengths of stay in those beds not exceeding six weeks.
• In respect of the St Martin’s development, Care Dorset were commissioned to provide the background support which covered ‘waking nights’ and additional support that certain individuals needed such as community support. Care Dorset would like to be the provider for all individual care needs, but accepted that some residents moving in already had a domiciliary care provider in place.

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