Aims of residential and nursing care in West Sussex

We aim to commission services that provide the most appropriate solution to deliver the outcomes that have been identified for individuals.

Care services need to be focused on the individual outcomes required for customers and incorporate a person-centred philosophy of service delivery, promoting rights, inclusion, choice, and independence.

All of this must be offered within a safe and enabling environment which aims to reduce or delay the deterioration of health, wellbeing, and independence.

• Offer good quality bed-based care to meet the needs of a wide range of older people  who need care and support.
•  Keeping people with the most complex needs safe and ensuring people are well cared for.
•  Providing a strengths-based approach focusing on wellbeing and what individuals can do to support people to maintain some independence, choice, and control for as long as possible.
• Providing inclusive and accessible services to people with protected characteristics and meeting cultural needs.
• Provide good information to self-funders to make good choices about their care options and avoid people seeking residential care earlier than necessary.
• Supporting and creating local social care jobs.
• Supporting opportunities for partnership working in bed-based services with the NHS, Voluntary and Community Sector and other partners.

In 2024/25 we expect to spend the following amount of money on older people’s residential and nursing services:

•  Nursing £39.8m
•  Residential £91.8m

Of those amounts, £104.1m per annum will be spent in the wider market, alongside £27.5m within the block contract with Shaw Homes (nursing £7m, residential £20.5m).