Live-in care solutions to reduce pressure on the public sector
Ground-breaking, affordable, versatile and responsive live-in care solutions.
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The public sector challenge
Our public sector partnerships are founded on understanding. We realise that our NHS and local authority colleagues in the health and social care sector are under considerable pressure as demand for care provision across the UK continues to grow.
With the number of people requiring urgent care and support increasing, not all providers are able to keep up with the demand for new care services.
- Falls are estimated to cost the NHS more than £2.3 billion per year
- Every minute, six people over 65 suffer a fall
- Falls account for up to 40 per cent of ambulance call-outs for people aged 65+
- Each ambulance call-out costs £,2301
- Each hip fracture is likely to need hospital admission, at £5,744 per patient
Our live-in care solution
Agincare works closely with public sector partners, sharing knowledge and experience to create a host of solution-based, affordable, and responsive live-in care services. Today, 80% of our business is with local authorities through our public sector partnerships.
Our live-in care services are helping to increase daily discharge rates, increase patient flow into the community and reduce the risk of medically fit for discharge (MFFD) patients de-compensating in acute systems.
As well as improving people’s quality of life by supporting them at home, our unique offer brings with it cost savings and efficiencies.
Our professional and empathetic care workers support and encourage their clients every step of the way, respecting their wishes and dignity at all times.
Thank you for supporting safe and timely discharges for patients – your service enables patients to leave hospital and return home as soon as they are deemed medically ready.
– Discharge Services Manager
During 2021/22 our live-in care projects and partnerships supported 2,793 patients to be discharged promptly and safely into their own homes. This freed up 67,190 NHS bed days, allowing for more capacity in hospitals for crucial operations and to manage the COVID-19 crisis. Those bed days would have cost the NHS more than £22 million over the year.
What’s more, 100% of customers rated the service as ‘excellent’, and only 5% had to be readmitted to hospital.
Our innovative approach to reducing Delayed Transfer of Care (DTOC) resulted in Agincare being chosen as a finalist in the prestigious LaingBuisson Awards, which recognise and celebrate industry excellence and innovative services in the public, private and third sectors.
The benefits of live-in care for NHS partners
- Reducing delayed transfers of care (DToC) and stranded patients
- Reducing inequality of access by ensuring care is available regardless of age, diagnosis and level of support required
- Freeing bed capacity
- Assisting medically fit for discharge (MFFD) patients out of acute hospitals
The benefits of live-in care for local authority partners
- Freeing up capacity in the community
- Supporting hard-to-reach people
- Reducing admission to residential care homes
- Reducing rates of admission into acute systems
- Regular re-assessing and right-sizing of care packages
Why commission a public sector live-in care solution from Agincare?
- We currently work with more than 25 local authority and CCG partners across England
- Our partners benefit from our tailored solutions to meet specific outcomes while keeping within commissioning budgets
- Over a 14-month period of Agincare live-in care, more than 2000 clients were discharged
- Across the short-term managed schemes, 29,000 bed days were saved. At £300 for a bed day, that’s a £9 million saving
- Reduced packages in short-term managed schemes, 9%
- Average length of stay (LOS) in short-term managed schemes, 13 days
- The readmission rate was 6%
- National stranded patient/DToC targets achieved across all sites
- Outstanding quality indicators and feedback from people
- Finalist in two national awards, winner of two local NHS awards for our discharge services
A positive visit, the service is well-run and providing a valuable resource that is allowing service users to return promptly. Feedback is positive and figures suggest that the service has had a real impact in reducing the time service users stay in hospital once fit for discharge.
-Local Authority Quality Monitoring Report
We can guarantee:
- Fast response times – Our nationwide assessor team is able to respond with 24 hours
- Live-in care in any location – no matter how rural
- Our national presence – we are one of the UK’s most trusted live-in care providers
- A wealth of experience – we’ve been working in health and social care for more than 35 years
- A fully-managed solution – we are not an introduction service. This means we have an ongoing duty of care to our clients
- Quality – we are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Our solutions
Enhanced domiciliary care project
We provide a team of live-in care workers and a project leader to provide care in an area where you are struggling to get patients home due to no home care being available.
We provide temporary support until the longer term care is ready to start, change or cease altogether.
Reablement project
This is a bridging service with a positive reputation for providing a rapid and bespoke package of care.
We deliver a short term, enhanced service designed to support individuals recovering from an illness or operation; helping them to reach the specific aims in their recovery.
Discharge to assess project
Our discharge to assess project provides short-term care and reablement in people’s homes.
End-of-life project
We provide a professional and compassionate care service for those who wish to spend their remaining days at home, surrounded by their family and memories.
Purchasing
Block live-in care
A block contract, or project, guarantees the commissioner a given volume of contracted hours, usually over a set period of time.
The amount of contracted hours and timeframe is determined by their specific requirements.
Advantages of block purchasing:
- Better rates
- Guaranteed hours
- Reduced risk to MFFD patients
- Measurable, trackable outcomes over time
Spot purchasing
If you are not currently in a position to purchase a block of live-in care, you can still spot purchase on an ad-hoc basis. This is usually purchased by or on behalf of a single service user and is readily available whenever you need it.
