Meeting documents

Appendix 4

PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE AND BUILDING CARE CAPACITY

GRANTS

Promoting Independence Grant

The Promoting Independence Grant, totalling £473,000 for Bath & North East Somerset Council, is the major grant that the Government gives to foster partnership between health and social services in promoting independence as an objective of adult services. In particular the grant is used to support new patters of service for providing care closer to home, in particular:

The grant this year has been used to enable the continuation of innovative schemes and other provision related to this objective, as follows:

PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE GRANT 2002/03

Building Care Capacity Grant

The Building Care Capacity Grant, totalling £986,000 is the grant that the Government gives to enable local authority community care services, including housing partners, to work with local NHS partners to reduce the number of delays where people are awaiting a transfer of care from hospital to community and require community care facilities or support in the community.

The principal purpose of the grant is to reduce the numbers of delayed transfers of care from acute hospitals. This can be done, for example, through:

The grant this year has been used principally to support the local nursing home and residential care economy, with specific emphasis on building capacity to care for older people who are mentally ill.

A number of other services have been developed to ensure more effective and efficient discharge from hospital, and to strengthen intermediate care facilities. This expenditure is closely linked to the modernisation of admission and discharge processes within the Royal United Hospital in which the local authority and the PCT are closely participating.

BUILDING CARE CAPACITY FUNDING 2002/03