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RESOLVED:
 

1.   
That Cabinet approves the Right Homes, Right
Support: Older People’s Residential and Nursing Delivery
Strategy.
 

2.   
That Cabinet approves £3.6m of capital funding
from the Council’s capital pipeline for the Older
People’s Residential and Nursing Delivery Strategy
to: 
 
                     
i.       
Undertake the necessary Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA) Stage 0 Strategic Definition Studies, RIBA Stage
1 Feasibility Studies, and market engagement across the whole
Council owned care home portfolio.

 
                    
ii.       
Enable a strategic business case to be developed
across the whole care home portfolio.

3.   
That Cabinet notes the direction of travel for care
homes on Council owned land (set out in recommendation 2) and the
possible need for public consultation on the proposed future use of
sites. 
Reasons for Decisions:
 
Approval of the Strategy set out within this report
will: 
a)   
Enable independence and improved outcomes for
Surrey’s older residents for as long as possible through
delivering specialist care home accommodation, which will play a
key role in the prevention of early admissions into acute hospitals
and into long term care home placements that may not be
necessary.
 
b)   
Ensure that there is sufficient care home provision
available to meet the increasing older peoples’ population in
Surrey and that can support people with complex mental health needs
and complex physical frailty.
 
c)   
Enable us to address the current, and future,
deficit in available capacity from the wider care market. Despite
extensive steps taken to address prices paid, developing new
contracting arrangements, and investing in care home capabilities
across the Surrey care market, we need new opportunities and
improved capacity to enable the best outcomes for
residents.
 
d)   
Enhance our offer of support to providers to improve
quality and outcomes for all residents receiving care and enable
them to deliver services to meet increased demand and complex
needs.
 
e)   
Long standing strategic contracts commissioned by
the Council will be managed through robust expiry planning to
ensure there is minimal disruption to residents, carers, families
and operational teams. 
 
f)    
Ensure that we develop (subject to detailed market
engagement, feasibility studies and outcomes of possible public
consultation) the most commercially viable and financially
sustainable strategic business case for the Council to achieve its
Residential and Nursing Care Strategy for Surrey’s older
residents.
 
g)   
Ensure effective use of the Council’s assets
to deliver improved outcomes for our residents, that is financially
sustainable and means ‘no one is left
behind’.
 
(The
decisions on this item can be call-in by the Adults and Health
Select Committee)