FOI Request - Adult Social Care Innovation

Request 101003477032

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.
https://sharedlivesplus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Shared-Lives-in-England-2020-21-compressed.pdf

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?
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us/areas-we-cover/ 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?
https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/get-support-at-home/about-our-home-care-services
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.

4a). 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.
https://www.paconsulting.com/client-story/hampshire-county-council-the-argenti-care-technology-partnership-delivers-exceptional-results-in-adult-social-care
b) 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.
https://www.genieconnect.co.uk/increasing-care-capacity-for-reablement/

5a) 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.
https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/cumbria-care-home-deploys-ai-lamps-to-reduce-falls/
b) 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.
https://www.somerset.gov.uk/news/somerset-council-working-with-the-nhs-to-digitise-adult-social-care-in-somerset/

Response 20-02-2024

1. Yes

2. Below is the savings approved for 23/24.

3. Yes we do currently. We currently commission Care Quality Services to provide care at home across Moray. There are no anticipated financial savings from this contract. We are currently reviewing care at home. There may be future procurement opportunities but this is yet to be determined.

4a) 1,861 people are in receipt of Technology Enabled Care (a community alarm and/or Telecare package). Unable to break down futher.

b) No

5a) There are no current plans to offer this service.

b) We are always reviewing new technology and how it can assist us in providing a good level of care to the people of Moray.

6. We are always reviewing new technology and how it can assist us in providing a good level of care to the people of Moray.