Issue - meetings

The Executive received an update on the Bromley Discharge to Assess (D2A) scheme that had been operating in pilot form, and made decisions on the future shape and funding of the service. Members noted that there was a close link between discharge and reablement; it was important that reablement services were in place when people were discharged.   

The report had been scrutinised at the Adult Care and Health PDS Committee meeting on 25^th June 2019 and the Committee supported the proposals.

RESOLVED that

(1) Progress on the Discharge to Assess scheme and the positive outcomes achieved for individuals be noted.

(2)  A one year continuation of the Discharge to Assess scheme be agreed, revised in the light of learning from the pilot, pending an evaluation of the revised service and longer term recommendations due to be made to the Executive in July 2020.

(3) The cost of the overspend on the Discharge to Assess scheme be met with a contribution from the Better care Fund, currently estimated at £850k.

(4) Tenders be issued for the Discharge to Assess service for a one year contract to run from August 2020 to August 2021; tender award will be subject to further approval by the Executive in March 2020, and a recommendation to award the contract will only be presented if it is also recommended (following the service review in January 2020) that the model should be endorsed.