The Director of Adults and Health:
a) Granted authority for up to a further 60 nursing and residential care beds to be commissioned from independent sector providers under block purchasing arrangements with immediate effect, for a period of three months, with an estimated cost of £468k.
b) Granted authority to extend the block purchasing arrangements for up to a further 3 months, for both the initial 60 beds previously approved and the additional up to 60 beds. The estimated cost, for the full three month extension period, for the total of 120 beds, will be £936k.
c) Noted that this decision is taken utilising the special urgency procedures under rule 2.6 of the Executive and Decision Making Procedure Rules and to exempt this decision from call-in under rule 5.1.3 of those Rules