Trafford Council - Winter Resilience Pilot Scheme

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On 30th September, Lord Peter Smith, Chair of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership Board announced a £5m fund to help make sure hospitals and social care can deal with the extra workload the winter months brings. Trafford Council invited all existing framework providers to a workshop on the 28th October to discuss the response to winter pressures. The framework will be formally approached, for EOI for the delivery of additional domiciliary care support in relation to winter pressures. Discussions are in place as to whether the Council or the CCG procurement will lead on this activity. In addition to the routinely commissioned domiciliary care services, Trafford Council would like to put in place a winter resilience scheme to ease the pressure on Trafford General, Salford and UHSM Hospital Trust during the 2016/17 cold snap. Trafford Council would like to pilot the commission of a small number of locality based domiciliary care agencies piloting a mini-block and lead provider arrangement to support people home from hospital more quickly and stop them from being admitted in the first place. The purpose of this contract is to deliver additional capacity to support winter pressures over the next five months. Trafford Council are struggling to meet demand now and we know that this situation will get worse as respiratory problems, strokes and heart attacks are all more likely to occur in cold weather. Providers are committed to sourcing additional capacity if work is guaranteed through locality based mini blocks. This will be achieved by one provider taking sole responsibility for a specific locality area, buddying up and trialling 7 day working. Providers believe this approach will improve recruitment and retention. Keywords: homecare, wellbeing, health, social care, domiciliary, disabiliy