Commissioning care closer to home: final report

Authors:
WISTOW Gerald, WADDINGTON Eileen, KITT Iain
Publisher:
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Publication year:
2009
Pagination:
60p.
Place of publication:
London

A project to promote better commissioning by social care and partner agencies of care closer to home for older people was commissioned in 2007. Seven local sites agreed to participate in the fieldwork: three focusing on the commissioning implications for adult social care, local authority and community sector partners of the shift from care in acute hospital settings (Blackpool, Islington and Sandwell), and four focusing on more effective commissioning arrangements for older people with mental health needs (Hampshire, Knowsley, Leeds and Oxfordshire). The key findings were that care closer to home is being interpreted and implemented in a variety of ways, that it is not clear whether it is seen as a specific objective of central government policy or a dimension of other policies, and that there is a corresponding lack of clarity about where ownership and accountability lie locally and nationally for its implementation and how its success will be measured. This report describes the overall findings from the project, including the commissioning framework designed for commissioning care closer to home, analyses the implications for the further development of care closer to home, and describes the work undertaken at the fieldwork sites.

Subject terms:
home care, mental health problems, older people, social care provision, community care, commissioning;
Content type:
research
Location(s):
England
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