Decision details

The Director of Adults & Health is asked to approve;

- the primary business requirements of a Care Quality Team

- the preferred staffing model for a Care Quality Team within the agreed budget of £300K per annum over 3 years.

The Director of Adults & Health approved the primary business requirements of a Care Quality Team in order to deliver proactive, targeted, strength-based support to older people's care homes in Leeds. The overriding purpose of the team will be to improve quality of care, as measured against defined success criteria, such as the percentage of CQC Good rated care homes.

The Director of Adults and Health approved the proposed staffing model for a Care Quality Team within the agreed budget of a recurrent spend of £300,000 per annum.

The Director of Adults and Health approved the recurrent spend of the remainder of the recurrent £300,000 pa budget to support the development of other elements of the wider One City project, for example as identified within the quality improvement action plan.

That implementation will be by the Head of Commissioning (Contracts and Business Development), and Service Transformation, with support from other teams as appropriate, from mid-November 2017.

Consultation relating to this decision has taken place across a wide range of different agencies and stakeholders. Consultation methods have included a multi-agency city wide event, regular formal meetings with NHS partners, Elected Members and representatives of care homes, written briefings to Elected Members and Scrutiny Board, Full Circle Newsletter, discussions with other local authorities and national organisations such as The King’s Fund and My Home Life.

Further consultation is planned following the decision.

Executive Member for Health, Well-being and Adults

Elected Members (Scrutiny Board & Strategic Advisory Board members)

Care Home Owners/Directors (Strategic Direction Group, Advisory Board)

Care Home Managers (Care Home Reference Group)

NHS – The 3 Clinical Commissioning Groups, Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH) & Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) (Quality Working Group),

NHS England and Primary Care via the CCGs

Adults & Health colleagues, (Contracts, Commissioning, Access and Care, Organisational Development) (Project Board, Quality Working Group)

Service Users and their relatives (Contract Review Consultation)

Leicestershire, Barnet, Suffolk, Durham Councils (Teleconferencing and email)

The King’s Fund and My Home Life (Network events, Teleconference)

In addition to the above the following were also consulted at the city wide quality event:

• Care Quality Commission
• Leeds Care Association
• Healthwatch Leeds

Age UK