Tendering For Care

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There is a general view that the tendering process is really about the purchaser securing the best possible proce for a contract, but is this really the case?

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The Rent Deposit Scheme has been set up by Worcester Housing and Benefit Advice Centre (WHABAC) . It is a new scheme to help people in drug treatment find secure and suitable accommodation and it is a joint contract between Worcestershire Supporting people and the Worcestershire Substance Misuse Action Team (SMAT).
The project aims to provide a long-term approach for substance mis-users in the area that need support in finding a suitable home.
Rent deposits will be provided to landlords in both the private housing sector and registered social landlords to house people who are actively working with drug and alcohol agencies. It also hopes to help integrate individuals back in to the community by offering access to schemes that assist with employment and training opportunities.

Landlords interested in registering with the scheme or for more information call WHABAC on 01905 721897.

HUNDREDS of life-limited youngsters across Bromsgrove and the rest of the Midlands will benefit from a massive £1million cash boost that is to be given to the Acorns Children's Hospice by the Government. The news, announced on Tuesday (October 31), will come as a great relief to the charity which had its three-year National Lottery funding taken away last year. The injection will now mean that Acorns' can re-open the 12 beds across the three hospices that it was forced to close due to a lack of funding. The hospices at Worcester, Selly Oak and Walsall will all get an extra four beds each - taking the total number across the Midlands to 30.

Waltham Forest is changing the way in which it delivers care to the elderly. As elderly residents are living longer, and are more healthy than ever before, the number of people wanting to move into residential care homes is dropping. The Borough maintains the majority of elderly residents want to remain in their homes, with access to care from social services and the health service. continued...

The cabinet have therefore decided to modernise care homes across the borough by replacing older homes with two large 90-bed residential units. They will offer 24-hour care for the most vulnerable older people who may require nursing, respite or rehabilitation. The centres will also offer a 24-hour advice and emergency support service and create up to 250 extra sheltered housing places for less vulnerable older people across Waltham Forest.

The Mental Health Foundation has been awarded a contract to work with the Strategic Network for Mental Health to develop recovery focused practice within its mental health services. Over the next two years the Recovery in Action project will enable the Strategic Network for Mental Health to develop best practice about ways to support people with mental health problems. The Strategic Network is comprised of Advance, Mind in Birmingham, Second Step and Sussex Oakleaf. From Autumn 2006 staff and service users from the organisations will participate in training and action learning. The outcomes of the project will include a model of best practice on the best way to deliver support based on the principle of recovery; a set of service user outcomes; a recovery checklist for organisations, a Recovery Training module; a tool to measure recovery outcomes and a report on the findings.

 

 

The new Bournemouth and Poole Primary Care Trust officially came into being on 1^st October 2006. The new Trust is the result of the merger of the Bournemouth and Poole Teaching Primary Care Trust and Poole Primary Care Trust. The new PCT has an annual budget of £430 million and employs 1,100 staff. The merger was part of a national reform that has enlarged PCTs - which commission health services on behalf of their local populations - and given them more buying power. There will be job losses, but staff are guaranteed payment until next June and any vacancies are being filled with temporary staff until the structure of the new trust is decided and appointments made. One of the keys to the latest NHS reforms is payment by results, which rewards efficiency. Because the money now follows the patient, the new system supports patients' right to choose where they are treated. Another change underway is practice-based commissioning, in which GP surgeries directly commission services according to their own patients' needs. PCTs will be working more closely with independent healthcare providers, voluntary organisations and charities in providing services. Locally there are plans to expand CART, a successful multi-agency Bournemouth scheme to keep older people out of hospital, and to continue working with the two councils in improving the health of the population.