Health and social work services

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Cambridgeshire is currently facing an increasing challenge to meet the current and future needs of its expanding population of older people. We have identified that there is currently a 450 shortfall of beds in the market place which will be met by the three work streams as outlined below. 1— Maximise capacity for council provision through the extended use of block contracts. 2— Commissioning arrangements with providers to extend capacity in Cambridgeshire. 3— Delivery model to develop additional residential and nursing beds within new residential and nursing home provision within Cambridgeshire. This opportunity is with regards to work stream 2 where the council is interested in hearing from care home providers who are interested in or have plans to increase capacity in Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for expressions of interest from providers to inform our commissioning and procurement strategy. This would suit providers of existing care homes who want to extend their current capacity and we are looking to increase the capacity in as many locations as possible. The council anticipates that it would commission a proportion of the additional capacity in each location and the rest would be available to the self-funder market. To express an interest please complete the questionnaire that can be found at www.lgssprocurementportal.co.uk (ref: DN306818) and return to transformation.team@cambridgeshire.gov.uk by Friday 5.1.2018.