Issue details

Brief Description

In 2018 Leeds City Council and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust entered a cooperation agreement to provide specialist infection control services across LCH and the wider community of Leeds. This includes proactive infection control services such as training and reactive management of outbreaks including new and emerging infections.

Approval is being sought to implement a permanent variation to the existing co-operation agreement held with Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust - Community Infection Prevention and Control service. This is in order to secure robust infection prevention and control services, maintaining existing capacity and capability achieved through Covid outbreak management funding which has now ceased. As a result of the learning from the pandemic, the ongoing impact of Covid, the challenges of monkey pox, seasonal influenza and other infections the priority must remain to protect the most vulnerable and ensure health inequalities are addressed.

Impact On Wards

All

Financial and procurement implications

The value of the existing co-operation agreement is £529,200 per annum, the additional recurrent variation from April 2023 will be £416,000 per annum

Total budget/agreement from April 2023 will be £945,200 per annum which will be funded from the Public Health ring-fenced grant.

Partnership working

The variation of the co-operation agreement will enable Leeds Community Healthcare to continue to contribute to the ongoing Leeds system wide management approach to outbreak control led by Leeds City Council. The variation will also enable proactive infection prevention interventions across the population of Leeds thus reducing the burden of infections/outbreaks.