ASC0275 - Online Market Engagement Event - Discharge to Assess (D2A) Pathway Two Review

THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION

Leicester City Council (the Authority), on behalf of our local systems partners in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, is leading the commissioning review of the discharge to assess Pathway 2 arrangements for Leicester and Leicestershire to ensure that our performance as a system continues to deliver good outcomes for people discharged from an acute setting. Our long-term aim is to have a robust and coherent discharge to recover, then assess model in place that can deliver good outcomes for those requiring a period of bed-based reablement and recovery. This compliments the significant amount of work being done around Pathway 1 as part of our Home First offer.

The discharge to assess model is based on four clear pathways for discharging people. The definition of Pathway 2 is given below.

Pathway 2 definition:

The principles of Pathway 2 are recovery, rehabilitation, assessment, care planning or short-term intensive support in a 24-hour bed-based setting, ideally before returning home.

The focus of that stay should be on enabling independence which supports the ideal outcome for the individual which is a return home.

This facility is most likely going to be based in a care home, a rehabilitation facility or a hospice and we are seeking responses from all sections of our market who feel they can offer intermediate care services in line with the principles set out above.

To ensure we promote the principles of a home first approach and to best support those needing a Pathway 2 offer, commissioners are keen to explore what the intermediate care model should look like. There are a number of elements that we would like to test out including how we support people with more complex needs at the point of discharge from hospital.

Further to the Soft Market Testing recently undertaken by the Authority as part of the commissioning process, the commissioners of Discharge to Assess (D2A) Pathway Two Review are keen to hold an Online Market Engagement Event.

See II.2.4 Description of procurement for further information about the Online Market Engagement Event.