Provision of Community Nursing Unit for Short-Term Reablement and Intermediate Care

About

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust awarded a contract to Athorpe Health Care Limited for the supply of a community unit with nursing to support individuals on a short-term basis who cannot remain at home but do not require consultant-led acute care, or who are being discharged from acute care but are not yet able to return home.

The supplier will work with health and social care providers to support discharge to assess, recovery, rehabilitation, and reablement care plans to facilitate independence and enable as many people to return home as possible.

Individual therapy programmes will be formulated with the individual to achieve objectives such as returning home at the earliest opportunity, increasing or maintaining independence, choice and control, and instigating planned treatment and care to manage deterioration in health and wellbeing.

The service sits within the overarching Discharge to Assess Framework, supporting adults aged 18 years and over, providing step-up and step-down beds for those whose needs cannot be met at home.

The contract value is AUD 2,121,600.