- Request
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1. Do you currently place any individuals with a learning disability in Shared Lives placements?
2. 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.
https://sharedlivesplus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Shared-Lives-in-England-2020-21-compressed.pdf
3. Please provide any estimates for financial savings, or anticipated future financial savings, through the integration of services with the NHS?
4. Do you use, or plan to use, HCRG Care Group to commission services, including joint commissioning with the NHS? https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us/areas-we-cover
5. Do you use any other organisations for joint commissioning with the NHS, or have any plans to do so?
6. Please provide any estimates for financial savings, or anticipated future financial savings, through any such joint commissioning with the NHS.
7. Do you currently commission the British Red Cross to provide home care services, or have any plans to do so? https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/get-support-at-home/about-our-home-care-services
8. 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?
9. If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that you make, or anticipate making.
10. 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?
11. 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.
12. If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.
https://www.paconsulting.com/client-story/hampshire-county-council-the-argenti-care-technology-partnership-delivers-exceptional-results-in-adult-social-care
13. Please advise if you have provided social care service users with GenieConnect "personalised reminders" from Service Robotics, or have any plans to do so?
14. If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.
https://www.genieconnect.co.uk/increasing-care-capacity-for-reablement
15. Do you make available, or plan to make available, AI powered ceiling lamps to social care service users?
16. If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.
https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/cumbria-care-home-deploys-ai-lamps-to-reduce-falls/
17. 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?
18. If so, please specify and provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.
19. Have you introduced, or do you plan to introduce, digitisation of social care service users records?
20. If so, please provide any estimates of financial savings that have resulted or are anticipated.
https://www.somerset.gov.uk/news/somerset-council-working-with-the-nhs-to-digitise-adult-social-care-in-somerset/ - Decision
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I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.
1. Yes
2. If service users in existing long term shared lives arrangements were instead supported in residential care, the alternative cost would be approximately £1.4m per annum higher
3. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this information.
4. HCRG does not currently deliver any contracted services on behalf on Lincolnshire County Council
5. Yes ,Lincolnshire County Council jointly commissions a variety of services with the NHS. As part of its ongoing recommissioning programme, the council routinely explores joint commissioning options and opportunities with partners in the health system and more widely.
6. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this information.
7. The British red Cross does not currently deliver any contracted services on behalf of Lincolnshire County Council
8. N/a
a. If this is about voluntary organisations then it is No, but if it is private providers yes our homecare is outsourced to the private sector.
9. N/a
10. 1523
11. There is no cost saving calculation for the telecare service for 22/23, LCC have not provided Argenti Telecare to service users and have no plans to do so.
12. N/a
13. No
14. N/a
15. No
16. N/a
17. Not at this time
18. N/a
19. LCC is working with the NHS ICB and Lincolnshire Care Association (LinCA) to promote take up and support care providers with access to funds to implement digital social care records. This is part of the Department of Health and Social care’s transformation Programme.
20. No estimates are available from this programme of work yet.
- Reference number
- FOI 8810833
- Date request received
- 25/01/24
- Date of decision
- 22/02/24