Norman Power Centre - Proposals for change, including proposed decommissioning of the Council's residential care service.

Closed 6 Nov 2016

Opened 4 Aug 2016

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specialistcareservicesconsultation2016@birmingham.gov.uk

Feedback updated 7 Jul 2017

We asked

The Council recognises that it cannot provide residential care for older adults in the Care Centres in a way which represents value for money when compared to providers of similar services within the care market. In order to ensure that it achieves better use of public funds, it must now explore alternative options for their future operation.

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Overview

Norman Power Care Centre is based in Ladywood and is one of 4 Care Centres that were built and completed in 2008 as part of the Council’s Older Adults Modernisation programme. The other centres are: Perry Tree Centre in Kingstanding, Ann Marie Howes Centre in Sheldon, and Kenrick Centre in Harborne.

The Centres are currently used to provide a range of services including:

  • Residential Care for older adults
  • Intermediate Care (for those stepping up/down from/to hospital )
  • Older Adults day care (which is the subject of separate proposals considered and approved by Cabinet for consultation on 28 June 2016)
  • Community café and internet access
  • Information and advice hubs
  • Rooms for hire which are used by a number of organisations to run activities

The Care Centres each contain 64 beds split over two floors, half of which are used for long term residential care and half of which are used for Intermediate Care or Enhanced Assessment. The Council operates the long term residential services in all of the Care Centres, as well as 32 short term / Enhanced Assessment Beds on the top floor of the Kenrick Centre.  The 32 Intermediate Care beds at the Norman Power Centre are currently unused.

Why your views matter

The Council recognises that it cannot provide residential care for older adults in the Care Centres in a way which represents value for money when compared to providers of similar services within the care market. In order to ensure that it achieves better use of public funds, it must now explore alternative options for their future operation. These could include:

  • Exploring alternative uses for the Care Centres to meet gaps in the current  market, including exploring  demand for dementia/enhanced assessment beds
  • Exploring options for further integration and shared use with the National Health Service (NHS) so the Care Centres deliver better health and wellbeing outcomes.
  • Exploring options to transfer the operation of the Care Centres to other care providers in the market.
  • Exploring options to consolidate the existing residential units into one or more Care Centres.

The Council said it would carry out further work to develop detailed proposals and that it would consult further on these.

What happens next

We will use the information you provide to support the further development of these proposals and to form a recommendation which will be presented to Cabinet for decision in Winter 2016.

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