Care sector programme

Adult social care is a valued partner within the health and care system and plays an essential and critical role in delivering first class care and support to our local population and supporting overall system resilience.

The ICB is committed to ensuring services provide high quality care that supports people to stay well in their own home and make sure our services work together. Likewise, people living in care homes and supported living settings should expect the same level of support as if they were living in their own home.

This can only be achieved through collaborative working between health, social care, voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sectors and care home partners. We seek to enable the effective use of resources through efficient collaboration across health and social care to improve outcomes for people in receipt of adult social care services, and in turn, reduce hospital admissions and ambulance call-outs and ensure high quality care provision.

The vision for the care sector provision across Lancashire and South Cumbria is:

  • To improve and sustain people’s experience and quality of life for those who utilise out of hospital adult social care services along with their families, carers, and local communities.
  • We want to engage with the workforce to establish integrated relationships and opportunities.
  • To deliver high-quality personalised care within the community.

We strive to provide proactive access to the right care and the right health services in the place of each individual's choosing to prevent or delay deterioration in health and wellbeing; supporting people to thrive.

The ICB care sector programme comprises of four distinct workstreams:

  • Digital
  • Quality assurance                       
  • Quality improvement
  • Workforce
Digital
Quality assurance
Quality improvement
Workforce

Care sector clinical team

A small team of highly skilled nurses, experts in quality, commissioning, and adult social care are leading and delivering system quality improvements with care providers across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The clinical team works to improve quality of life, care, choice and opportunity for all who utilise or work within adult social care services. Services covered by the programme include:

  • Residential care homes
  • Nursing homes, including specialist settings
  • Domiciliary care providers including supported living

The clinical team provide strategic leadership working closely with local authority partners to monitor quality, performance and delivery alongside developing and shaping future strategies that enable the regulated care sector and the people who utilise adult social care services to thrive.

Our clinical team also work at ‘place’ aligned to each of the four local authorities within Lancashire and South Cumbria to ensure the delivery at a local level is reflective of need. Our clinical team visit care settings on a regular basis; strengthening relationships and working with system partners to improve care delivery and address unwarranted variation.

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