Policy Updates 4th January 2023

 

Bristol City Council - Adult Social Care Discharge Fund

The government announced the Adult Social Care Discharge Fund - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for use;

“on the interventions that best enable the discharge of patients from hospital to the most appropriate location for their ongoing care…. and provision of homecare is recognised as an effective option for discharging more people in a safe and timely manner.  Funding can also be used to boost general adult social care workforce capacity, through staff recruitment and retention, where that will contribute to reducing delayed discharges.”

Bristol City Council Adult Care is looking at a number of initiatives to support safe and timely discharges and wish to alert you to three specific to our active contracted framework home care providers;

  1. a time limited contractual change so providers receive payment for all commissioned visits up to a maximum of 14 days while a service user is in hospital during an unplanned admission.  You will receive further information over the coming days.

  2. we will be providing providers with a grant for use for recruitment and retention of staff to increase capacity of home care in Bristol.  The grant conditions and allocation will be communicated in early January.

  3. a project to support providers to free up capacity by reviewing Service Users who no longer need the support provided.  This is an ongoing project we have already begun.

 Once you have received further information, we can answer any queries via adultcommissioning@bristol.gov.uk .

If you have any new home care capacity available please email Russell.Henderson@bristol.gov.uk in the Support Planning and Brokerage team stating the number of hours and the area. 

New Regulatory Approach - CQC

Communications from the CQC on their new regulatory approach.

We had previously shared that we would introduce our new regulatory approach in January 2023. Following a full review of our timeline we have decided this will not happen until later in 2023. 

Today we’ve published a full update on our website that covers how we’ll be implementing our new approach in 2023, this covers:

  • introducing a new regulatory approach for health and care providers, integrated care systems and local authorities 

  • establishing a new Regulatory Leadership team to shape our priorities and drive improvement 

  • changing how our operational teams are structured to better deliver our regulatory activity 

  • delivering a new and improved provider portal. 

You can read the full update on our website and we’ll be shortly sending to all providers. We’ll be sharing more information in early 2023.

 
Annabelle Williams dos Anjos