Issue details

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, seeking approval for Southampton City Council and the Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group to work together to recommission the Adult Domiciliary Care framework across the City in 2014.
The domiciliary care market within Southampton currently provides care for approximately 1,810 people in any given week. It accounts for a £18.07 million spend and there are currently up to 75 providers working in the city and delivering care packages.
Due to its size and importance in terms of meeting service user needs and enabling the city to meet its strategic requirements, it is essential that domiciliary care provision achieves high standards of delivery, quality and value for money.
Recommissioning these services supports three main outcomes:
•To improve quality within domiciliary care services
•To ensure the best value available within the market
•To ensure services are able to respond to changing needs and demands.

SCC wish to commission external provision to deliver additional activity that is required due to increasing needs within the city.

The increasing demographic changes and the emphasis on recovery and prevention within the city’s transformational change programme, requires the option to potentially award reablement services to external providers, should it be identified that meeting demand and improving outcomes will be more effectively achieved through this arrangement.