Decision details
*Re-Published - no longer subject to call in* Fee Levels for HAS contracted services 2016- 17
Decision Maker: Executive Member for Adult Social Care & Health Integration, incl Health & Wellbeing Board and Extra Care
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
Fee levels were agreed for 2016 -17 as
follows:
1. The fee levels for care homes for older people will be:
Residential £499.73
Nursing £490.28
2. A 1% inflationary uplift will be paid to those providers of
residential or nursing care for older people whose current fee
rates are above the proposed new rates
3. An inflationary uplift of 3% will be paid to specialist care
homes
4. An hourly increase will be paid to domiciliary care providers of
60p an hour
5. A 3.3% fee uplift will be paid for other non-regulated
contracts
6. For out of county placements we will honour an uplift agreed by
the host
authority where they have undertaken an Actual Cost of Care
exercise, and will
consider individual business cases where there is no Actual Cost of
Care exercise in
place
7. Letter to the Independent Care Group to follow up on issues
raised
Reasons for the decision:
*PLEASE NOTE This decision was originally
published on or near the date of the decision and so call in no
longer applies. It has been re-published as part of the change in
committee management system that we use.*
The Council has a commitment to review fee levels on an annual
basis.
From April 2015 the Council has new statutory responsibilities
under the Care Act 2014 to shape and sustain its markets.
In reaching this decision due regard has been paid to the Cost of
Care exercise for residential and nursing care homes, undertaken by
Mazars LLP; to the results of consultation with providers and the
Independent Care Group; and to information and judgements of
officers regarding the care and support market in North
Yorkshire.
The new fee levels will address increased costs across the care and
support providers due to the National Living Wage and other wage
related costs, as well as inflationary pressures. .
The higher increases in fee for Nursing homes will help address
issues
we have in the nursing care market around capacity and
sustainability and where strategically we want to support the
market to respond to growing needs.
Alternative options considered:
Option 2 – to agree higher fee levels as
proposed by the Independent Care Group
Option 3 – to reduce proposed fee levels for care homes with
nursing, in the light of an increase in the new Funded Nursing Care
rates, paid by the NHS, and use the monies released to enhance
rates for residential care homes or domiciliary care
providers
Option 4 – to introduce market supplements for local areas if
there is clear
evidence that the market is restricted at the proposed fee
rates
Publication date: 10/05/2021
Date of decision: 28/10/2016