{"id":15545,"date":"2017-10-25T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T08:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=15545"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:05:39","slug":"caring-about-quality-tell-us-your-views-take-part-in-survey-from-the-ccg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2017\/10\/caring-about-quality-tell-us-your-views-take-part-in-survey-from-the-ccg\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring About Quality – Tell us your views. Take part in survey from the CCG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caring About Quality \u2013 The Quality Framework (QF) and Long Term Care (LTC) Providers Specification- Tell us your views<\/strong><\/p>\n

NHS North East Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group and North East Lincolnshire Council<\/strong> want to hear your views about what we are doing to plan and buy quality Long Term Residential Care services for local people who need that level of support.<\/p>\n

Some care homes provide services for older people; others support people with learning and\/or physical disabilities or people living with dementia or mental health conditions.<\/p>\n

We have recently updated the service specification (the document which sets out exactly what we want a service to deliver and what it should include) for the 43 local care homes we buy services from in order to reflect the new legal standards required by the Care Act.\u00a0 We have also developed a new local quality framework and scheme as we want to make sure all homes provide not only a standard level of quality but are also rewarded for going further with services that improve the lives of their residents. This could be something like providing special services for people with memory problems or with mobility difficulties.<\/p>\n

Care homes that meet the new service specification will be eligible to apply to take part in our new quality scheme.<\/p>\n

Homes first need to tell us about how they plan to go over and above the legal quality requirements and how this will benefit their residents.<\/p>\n

A panel will then assess each application before signing them up to the scheme which will earn them a one-off payment that will allow them to invest in their plans.<\/p>\n

We will review homes regularly to make sure they are working towards, and eventually reaching, the plans and targets they told us about when they joined the scheme. This will earn them a payment above the basic rate we pay care homes for each resident funded by the council or the NHS.<\/p>\n

What sort of things are included?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new scheme will focus on five key areas which are likely to include:<\/p>\n