Potential Standalone Contracts within Nursing Homes (Aberdeen City)

Description

Aberdeen Health and Social Care Partnership are considering commissioning specialist care in nursing homes within Aberdeen City and would like to engage with the nursing home market to consider how this could be achieved. There is a significant lack of local specialist residential care for all age groups that require the following specialist care services: Tracheostomy Care Acquired Brain Injuries Degenerative Neurogenetic disorders Challenging behaviours possible due to conditions listed above In a lot of cases individuals either remain as a delayed discharge in hospital or are placed outwith the Aberdeen City boundary, sometimes cross border which means that the most vulnerable of clients are taken away from their home city, removed from families and the personal cost to these individuals and their loved ones is severe. The partnership would like to know if there are any registered nursing homes that could provide a specialist, bespoke complex care unit/bed(s). Given the potentially higher cost of this type of provision this would be a bespoke standalone contract (in addition to the NCHC). This would obviously require a more specialist skillset for care home staff and a variation to the registration of the care home to allow for more complex care to be provided which should include individuals under 65. These would be permanent residents therefore can register as a permanent patient with the local GP practices.