Issue - meetings

 Report by Graham Wilkin, Interim Director

Councillor Jerry Wickham presented the report which requested that, an extension to the Intermediate Care bed service contract is agreed for a further year. In presenting the report, Councillor Wickham highlighted how the beds were utilised as part of the approach to maximising the number of people able to remain living at home and reducing the total number of people who are permanently admitted to a care home.

Councillor Gordon King and Councillor John Walsh, from the Health Select Committee, stated that intermediate care beds, as part of work looking into the operation of the Better Care Plan, would be subject to further review.

Resolved

To approve an extension of the Intermediate Care bed service contract, due to expire on 31 March 2018, for an additional year to expire on 31 March 2019.

Reason for decision:

For the request of the extension of the current contracts we would be advising

that 70 beds are continued with, but that within the next year there will be a

review to determine the total beds required for the following year.

The plan would be to reduce the number of beds over time, to consider the

impact of Adult Care Transformation in reducing the bed base demand.