Care Home Commissioning Support
We offer comprehensive commissioning support to ensure a seamless transition for new care services. Our experienced team can provide guidance from the very beginning, or even act as your dedicated manager throughout every step of the process.
We can provide support throughout the commissioning stages of your new service or act as the commissioning manager from start to finish. This may include:
The commissioning cycle supporting our clients from planning, purchasing, and monitoring health and care services:
our services
Analyse
Gather information about local needs, legislation, and available resources. This includes reviewing guidance, best practice, and current service provision.
Plan
Identify gaps in existing services and design a new service that meets the needs of the target audience.
Do
Find providers to deliver the new service, secure contracts, and agree how providers will be paid.
Review
Evaluate the outcomes of the contracted services, as well as the strategy and market performance.
The commissioning cycle aims to improve the health outcomes of residents and their quality of life. It’s important to include the voice of the service user in the commissioning process. This can be done by engaging service users and local communities in the planning and commissioning of services.
We can deliver these services either through our consultancy services or through interim support.
The commissioning cycle in social care is often like other commissioning cycles at first glance. The terminology of the stages in a commissioning cycle may vary and some councils may add in additional steps. However, there is often four main steps at the core of every local authority’s commissioning cycle. These include:
- Assessment
- Planning
- Contracting
- Monitoring
Other times the commissioning cycle stages can be referenced as:
- Analyse
- Plan
- Do
- Review
We support Local Authorities at every stage in:
Developing a clearer understanding of the complex needs of their community including considering the whole needs of person from practical and medical, to social and emotional
Identify which are the areas of poor performance
Involve people who use services and unpaid carers at every stage of the commissioning process
Improve your knowledge of the services that are already provided
Adopt an outcomes-led approach
Make sure services are continually assessed
Encourage service providers to show how they will increase an individual’s independence
Set high standards for monitoring
Consider opportunities that will make care deliveries more sustainable
1. Assessment
We support local authorities to identify what the needs of your local population are.
This can be where local authorities will adopt a population health management approach so local authorities can gather health outcomes across a population in a specific area to assess their care needs.
2. Planning
We use the information collected from the assessment process to design ways in which those needs can be met best.
We start with the planning stage with a quick review of the key findings from the assessment to identify gaps and then establish how these can be filled. During the planning stage a more detailed review will often take place to decide what is needed, what is available, and what the supply and demand capacity currently looks like.
Our Planning often lead to the production of a commissioning strategy that outlines what actions will be taken and why, as well as the targets to be achieved.
3. Contracting
The contracting step of the commissioning cycle is where we suggest the procurement strategy and support organisation procure goods and services that are fit for purpose, base of on identified needs
4. Monitoring
The monitoring stage is where we support local authorities assess the performance of providers, the authority itself, and its impacts, to analyse what targets have been achieved against the commissioning strategy put forward in the planning stage.
place to lead to better data-led commissioning decisions being made for your community.
Our commissioning support
With extensive experience in commissioning new services, we are well-equipped to support your commissioning plans with confidence.Specializing in large nursing home commissioning, we understand that each organization has its own distinct requirements. We recommend starting with a no-obligation consultation to better understand your needs and explore how we can assist your organization. Reach out today to discover how we can make a difference for you.
