Issue - meetings

Report of the Executive Director of Adult Social Care and Health.

The Committee considered the report of the Executive Director of Adult Social Care and Health that presented the Sefton Integrated Care Home Strategy 2021-24 that would be submitted to the Health and Wellbeing Board for approval. The report set out the rationale and development of the strategy; key themes and objectives within the Strategy; and delivery of the Strategy and governance arrangements. The report concluded that the Strategy had been produced as part of a joint commitment to further Adult Social Care and Health integrated working in this sector to ensure that it continued to meet the needs of the Sefton population and would be a key part of the delivery of the emerging Integrated Care Partnership.

Appendix A to the report set out the Sefton Integrated Care Home Strategy 2021-24 and Appendix B to the report set out the governance and delivery arrangements for the Strategy.

Members of the Committee asked questions/raised matters on the following issues:

·       The resources required to maintain the commitment to keep people in their own home.

·       Continuing care and the need to involve Healthwatch Sefton.

·       The need for an effective, trained workforce and the use of agency staff.

·       The impact of Brexit on the care home sector and the importance of reporting this aspect.

·       The “market” aspect of the care home sector, although a significant part of the market was not for profit.

·       Understanding the full costs of care.

·       Preventative measures required, including falls, etc.

·       The mandatory nature of covid jabs for care home staff, although this was not mandatory for agency staff.

·       The overall strategy to keep people out of care homes and in their own homes, wherever possible.

·       The importance of care closer to home.

RESOLVED:

(1)      the Sefton Integrated Care Home Strategy 2021-24 be noted; and

(2)      the Governance and Delivery Structure for the Strategy be noted, together with the intention for further reports to be submitted to the Committee throughout the life of the Strategy in order to provide updates on the delivery of the Strategy.