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Fee uplift information (2024 to 2025) sent to care providers

Case reference FOI2024/00665

Published 1 May 2024

Request

Q1) Please provide a copy of your 2024 to 2025 fee uplift letter that was sent to care providers. If you have not reported a 2024-25 fee uplift, please outline your timeline and process for doing so.

Note: Please do not embed the document in your response. Please share the letter as an attachment.

Q2) Please confirm the date when the local authority/Cabinet agreed or made the decision to proceed with the fee uplift for care providers for the 2024/25 financial year.

Q3) Please confirm the date this decision on the fee uplift for the 2024/25 financial year was officially communicated to the providers.

Q4) Please provide your 2024 to 2025 weekly base* fee rates for the following care types:

1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

3. Residential (without nursing)

4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

*Note: If you do not operate a base fee, please provide the fee schedule you use (i.e. a banding or range of fees, or guide prices). If no fee schedule is used, please provide the average fee proposed during this period for each care type.

Q5) Please provide your average weekly fee rate (being the average weekly fee paid during the period 1st April 2023 to March 31st 2024) for the following care types:

1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

3. Residential (without nursing)

4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

Note: if you are unable to split Dementia from care without Dementia, please provide a blended Residential and a blended Nursing rate. This calculation should be the same as the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund reporting submitted in May 2023.

Q6) Please provide your provisional average weekly fee rate (calculated consistently with the rate in the question above) for the period 2024-2025 for the following care types:

1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

3. Residential (without nursing)

4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

Note: if you are unable to split Dementia from care without Dementia, please provide a blended Residential and a blended Nursing rate. This calculation should be the same as the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund reporting submitted in May 2023.

Q7) Please confirm if your authority requires or provisions for care providers to pay care staff a rate higher than the National Living Wage, and when this policy was implemented.

Q8) For the period 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024, please provide the number of individual residents, where their contracts for the provision of Older Person Services for both residential care and nursing care were either terminated by the care provider, handed back by the care provider, or were renegotiated due to the threat or notice of termination/handing back was made by the care provider. You should provide the number of residents this applies to and the number of care providers.

Response

Q1) Please provide a copy of your 2024 to 2025 fee uplift letter that was sent to care providers. If you have not reported a 2024-25 fee uplift, please outline your timeline and process for doing so.

Note: Please do not embed the document in your response. Please share the letter as an attachment.

Please see attached.

Q2) Please confirm the date when the local authority/Cabinet agreed or made the decision to proceed with the fee uplift for care providers for the 2024/25 financial year.

Decision made 21/03/2024.

Q3) Please confirm the date this decision on the fee uplift for the 2024/25 financial year was officially communicated to the providers.

Letters were sent to the providers on 21/03/2024.

Q4) Please provide your 2024 to 2025 weekly base* fee rates for the following care types:

1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

3. Residential (without nursing)

4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

*Note: If you do not operate a base fee, please provide the fee schedule you use (i.e. a banding or range of fees, or guide prices). If no fee schedule is used, please provide the average fee proposed during this period for each care type.

Herefordshire Council does not operate separate fee rates for dementia care. Herefordshire Council standard fee rates for 2024/25 are as follows:

Nursing Care (Excluding FNC) - £732.35 per week

Residential Care (without nursing) - £642.02 per week

Q5) Please provide your average weekly fee rate (being the average weekly fee paid during the period 1st April 2023 to March 31st 2024) for the following care types:

1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

3. Residential (without nursing)

4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

Note: if you are unable to split Dementia from care without Dementia, please provide a blended Residential and a blended Nursing rate. This calculation should be the same as the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund reporting submitted in May 2023.

Please see the attached spreadsheet.

Q6) Please provide your provisional average weekly fee rate (calculated consistently with the rate in the question above) for the period 2024-2025 for the following care types:

1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

3. Residential (without nursing)

4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

Note: if you are unable to split Dementia from care without Dementia, please provide a blended Residential and a blended Nursing rate. This calculation should be the same as the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund reporting submitted in May 2023.

Base rates 2024/2025:


Residential - £642.02 per week

Nursing - £732.35 per week (excluding Funding Nursing Care)

Q7) Please confirm if your authority requires or provisions for care providers to pay care staff a rate higher than the National Living Wage, and when this policy was implemented.

Herefordshire Council does not require providers to pay care staff a rate higher than National Living Wage.

Q8) For the period 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024, please provide the number of individual residents, where their contracts for the provision of Older Person Services for both residential care and nursing care were either terminated by the care provider, handed back by the care provider, or were renegotiated due to the threat or notice of termination/handing back was made by the care provider. You should provide the number of residents this applies to and the number of care providers.

Number of residents this applies to 8

Number of Care providers this applies to 1

Please note - Older Person Cohort Aged 65+

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