Rochdale Borough Council are undertaking a multi-year transformation programme in adult social care called EPiC Lives (Empowering people, changing lives) that is focused on driving improved outcomes for individuals and promoting resident independence.
As part of this broad-ranging programme of work, the council is keen to explore options to improve and expand our technology enabled care offer. This would include providing installations of technology enabled care solutions to both working age adults and older age adults across all care pathways.
Specialist health improvement service, addressing needs of the Rochdale community and health lifestyle factors, ie smoking, physical activity, weight, isolation and long term conditions. Please register on www.the-chest.org.uk
Following the delivery of SMMC to a base build specification, a technical fit out is now needed to meet the needs of the operator. This would include internal partitions, upgrades to the heating and ventilation system to accommodate increased extraction and make-up air, installation of necessary AV infrastructure and progressive privacy systems for example, as well as laboratory fit out. This work is currently in design stage and we would look to dovetail the fit out works on Practical Completion of the base build.
The overall aim of the Rochdale Recovery offer is to provide a high quality, recovery focused
programme of activity across Rochdale, that will support people to become free from
dependency from substances and enable them to thrive. The service will work closely with
drug and alcohol treatment providers and others who provide support to those in active drug
and alcohol use to provide an offer of hope of recovery with meaningful activities to support
recovery in everyday life.
The service will adopt a holistic, and whole family, approach to service delivery to ensure that
the wider determinants of health are supported. Establishing effective partnerships with wider
stakeholders is crucial to providing a comprehensive service offer.
The priority outcomes the service will be expected to support the wider system in achieving
are:
• A reduction in levels of drug and alcohol related harm.
• A reduction in drug and alcohol related offending.
• An increase in the number of people in and sustaining recovery.
• A reduction in drug and alcohol related deaths.
• Contribute to the reduction in demand for other services linked to complex drug and
alcohol issues (e.g., reduction in the number of emergency department attendances
and admissions by those who have multiple attendances and repeat presentations to
adult social care).
• Contribute to a reduction in health inequalities
More information can be found at www.the-chest.org.uk
Children and Young People's 0-19 Public Health Services
The 0-19 Public Health Services are crucial in ensuring children and families get a good start in life. The services consist of the health visiting service and school nursing service.
The health visiting service delivers the 5 public health mandated contacts that are to be completed with families before a child reaches age 2 and a half.
The school nursing service is a crucial health presence in our schools that ensures there are whole school approaches to public health topics such as healthy eating, smoking cessation and sexual health.
Both services also play key role in safeguarding processes. Both by identifying safeguarding issues and supporting the wider system with health input into cases.
The contract duration will be on a two year basis (plus 3 extension years).
