Commissioning and Brokerage Procedures

1. Using this Procedure

This procedure should be used by all adult social care practitioners, with the exception of:

1. Practitioners arranging assistive technology or Telecare;
2. Practitioners arranging minor works or low level adaptations;
3. Occupational Therapy practitioners arranging equipment or a major adaptation.

Although this procedure may be helpful to those people with responsibility for commissioning or brokering services, it does not provide specific guidance about arranging, monitoring or reviewing contracts, or any other associated actions that may be required. Anyone carrying out such actions should refer to available local processes.

2. Development of this Procedure

Where local processes already exist this procedure will reference and link to those processes, which should be managed in the Local Resource area.

Where local processes do not exist this procedure should be developed by the customer. Examples can be provided and the tri.x lead can provide additional guidance if needed.

The section can be structured as per your own preferences but tri.x would suggest using key headings and a high level of CMS links, as opposed to a high level of written text. This will allow for greater customer control in updating information as and when local processes may change.

Examples of services you may wish to include are domiciliary care, residential and nursing placements, reablement, supported living, extra care, shared lives, respite, intermediate care, end of life services, carers services, public health services and transport.