Decision details

Proposed decision: To extend the current contracts for Living Well/Ageing Well services – Smoking Cessation, Health Checks, Health Trainers and Healthy Weight – to 31  March 2017, to allow for the development of transformative service models, prior to the competitive tendering of a new model.

How the decision relates to BS4K and Corporate Objectives:

In line with the Council’s Strategic Framework, extending the existing contracts will allow for a focus on outcomes, whilst developing new services that will be based around the needs of the people of Kent.

Financial Implications: The Living Well/Ageing Well contracts that are proposed to be extended currently are as follows:

·         Health Checks  (currently expires October  2016) 

·         Healthy Weight (currently expires October 2016)

·         Smoking Cessation (currently expires October 2016)

·         Health Trainers (currently expires October 2016)

Contracts for the health improvement services currently have a total annual value of approximately £5.3m.

The County Council has now received its allocation for the public health grant 2016/17 which is £71,121,000. This represents a 7.5% reduction.

Public Health have already delivered savings of £926k on adult health improvement services by making greater use of activity-based contract payments and reducing management overheads.

A six-month extension will enable Public Health to continue to deliver efficiencies through internal activity and management of existing contracts for these services, and would not be curtailed by a delay in the procurement process. Contract values for extensions of services will need to reduce to deliver the savings.

Equality Implications: None.

The matter is referred to in the Directorate’s Business Plan/Medium Term Capital Programme.

As Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, I agree to extend the current contracts for Living Well/Ageing Well services – Smoking Cessation, Health Checks, Health Trainers and Healthy Weight – to 31st  March 2017  to develop a transformative service models, prior to the competitive tendering of a new model.  .