Adult Social Care innovation

2024129

24/01/2024

FOI

1. Do you currently place any individuals with a learning disability in Shared Lives placements? If not, do you have any plans to make such placements? Please provide any estimates of financial savings that you make, or anticipate making, as a result of any such placements.

2. Please provide any estimates for financial savings, or anticipated future financial savings, through the integration of services with the NHS? Do you use, or plan to use, HCRG Care Group to commission services, including joint commissioning with the NHS?
Do you use any other organisations for joint commissioning with the NHS, or have any plans to do so? Please provide any estimates for financial savings, or anticipated future financial savings, through any such joint commissioning with the NHS.

3. Do you currently commission the British Red Cross to provide home care services, or have any plans to do so?
If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that you make, or anticipate making. Do you currently commission other organisations to provide home care services? If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that you make, or anticipate making.

4. How many social care users did you provide with care technology, such as "Telecare" or "personalised reminders", in their homes for the financial year 2022/23? Please provide any estimates of financial savings that resulted. Please advise if you have provided social care service users with Argenti telecare, or plan to do so. If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.
Please advise if you have provided social care service users with GenieConnect "personalised reminders" from Service Robotics, or have any plans to do so? If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.

5. Do you make available, or plan to make available, AI powered ceiling lamps to social care service users? If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.
Do you have other plans to make use of robotics/AI/new technology to reduce the risk of falls and otherwise improve the standard of care?
If so, please specify and provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.

6. Have you introduced, or do you plan to introduce, digitisation of social care service users records? If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.

Yes, we provide Shared Lives placements for adults with learning disabilities.
In 2023/24 we estimate financial savings to be negligible, c. £3,000 in total. However, by placing clients in the Shared Lives programme, we estimate to avoid standard client community based support costs of c. £536k. There is currently no available information on savings in relation to the integrating of services between the council and the NHS. Integration is achieved through various means and models of delivery which is an on-going process. The Council has no plans to use HCRG Care Group to commission services. The vast majority of commissioning is done through the council. There are some examples of joint commissioning between the council and the NHS Board but these are relatively small scale. The are currently plans to develop a commissioning framework which will map and review all commissioning and these processes will inevitably identify potential opportunity for efficiencies. The Council does not commission the British Red Cross to provide home care services and have no plans to do so. All care at home provision in the Borders is about to be reviewed and redesigned this will include both our internal provision and the provision delivered through external partners. This project is too early in its existence to be able to illustrate potential savings. 1316 clients for 2022/23. None with Argenti care and no financial savings associated with. The Council have not provided social care services users with GenieConnect "personalised reminders" from Service Robotics. The Council do not provide AI powered ceiling lamps to social care service users. The Council have no plans at present to make use of robotics/AI/new technology to reduce the risk of falls and otherwise improve the standard of care. We have been using electronic case recording in social work for many years as part of our business as usual.

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