Live-in care partnerships
Working with public sector partners to deliver bespoke home care solutions
Our public sector partnerships are founded on understanding. As trusted partners with long standing relationships, we are well placed to support the health and care sector’s modern day demands and the people who rely upon those services.
With the number of people requiring urgent, short term and long term support, we are one of a select number of providers who are able to match this demand and evolution with high quality services. Agincare works closely with public sector partners, sharing knowledge and experience to create a host of solution-based, affordable, and responsive live-in care services. Today, 80% of our work is with local authorities through our public sector partnerships.
Our live-in care solution
Our live-in care services are helping to increase daily discharge rates, increase patient flow into the community and reduce the risk of medically fit for discharge (MFFD) patients de-compensating in acute systems.
Enhanced domiciliary care project
We provide a team of live-in care workers and a project leader to provide care in an area where you are struggling to get patients home due to no home care being available. We provide temporary support until the longer term care is ready to start, change or cease altogether.
Reablement project
Our bridging service has a positive reputation for providing rapid and bespoke package of care. We deliver a short term, enhanced service designed to support individuals recovering from an illness or operation; helping them to reach the specific aims in their recovery.
Discharge to assess project
Our discharge to assess project provides short-term care and reablement in people’s homes; supporting their recovery within familiar surroundings.
End-of-life project
We provide a professional and compassionate care service for those who wish to spend their remaining days at home, surrounded by their family and memories.
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As well as improving people’s quality of life by supporting them at home, our unique offer brings with it cost savings and efficiencies.
Our professional and empathetic care workers support and encourage their clients every step of the way, respecting their wishes and dignity at all times.
Our innovative approach to reducing Delayed Transfer of Care (DTOC) resulted in Agincare being chosen as a finalist in the prestigious LaingBuisson Awards, which recognise and celebrate industry excellence and innovative services in the public, private and third sectors.
Benefits of live-in care
Our live-in care services are supporting NHS and local authority partners across the country to reduce admissions into care homes and enable people to get back to living in their own home.
The benefits of live-in care for NHS partners
- Reducing delayed transfers of care (DToC) and stranded patients
- Reducing inequality of access by ensuring care is available regardless of age, diagnosis and level of support required
- Freeing bed capacity
- Assisting medically fit for discharge (MFFD) patients out of acute hospitals
The benefits of live-in care for local authority partners
- Freeing up capacity in the community
- Supporting hard-to-reach people
- Reducing admission to residential care homes
- Reducing rates of admission into acute systems
- Regular re-assessing and right-sizing of care packages
Thank you for supporting safe and timely discharges for patients – your service enables patients to leave hospital and return home as soon as they are deemed medically ready.
Discharge Services Manager
Many people want to spend their remaining time at home with their families, and the project with Agincare means we can safely and quickly discharge more people home from our acute hospitals.
Head of Continuing Healthcare and Placed People
I recently contacted Agincare in the hope they could organise a package of care for a lady who had been stranded in hospital for five weeks. I found all Agincare team members friendly and professional, most importantly they acted quickly and efficiently organising a complex package of care that several other agencies had failed to do.
Trustpilot Review
A positive visit, the service is well-run and providing a valuable resource that is allowing service users to return promptly. Feedback is positive and figures suggest that the service has had a real impact in reducing the time service users stay in hospital once fit for discharge.
Local Authority Quality Monitoring Report
Our guarantee
Our live-in care solutions come with a guarantee that you will receive high-quality care from our professional team quickly, and wherever you need it.
Fast response times
Our nationwide assessor team is able to respond with 24 hours
Live-in care in any location
No matter how rural, we can provide bespoke live-in care
National presence
We are one of the UK’s most trusted live-in care providers
A wealth of experience
We’ve been working in health and social care for more than 35 years
A fully-managed solution
We are not an introduction service. This means we have an ongoing duty of care to our clients
Quality assurance
We are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Why commission a public sector
live-in care solution from Agincare
We currently work with more than 25 local authority and CCG partners across England
Our partners benefit from our tailored solutions to meet specific outcomes while keeping within commissioning budgets
National stranded patient/DToC targets achieved across all sites
Outstanding quality indicators and feedback from people
Finalist in two national awards, winner of two local NHS awards for our discharge services
Over a 12-month period of Agincare live-in care, more than 2000 clients were discharged
Purchasing
Block live-in care
A block contract, or project, guarantees the commissioner a given volume of contracted hours, usually over a set period of time. The amount of contracted hours and timeframe is determined by their specific requirements.
Advantages of block purchasing:
- Better rates
- Guaranteed hours
- Reduced risk to MFFD patients
- Measurable, trackable outcomes over time
Spot purchasing
If you are not currently in a position to purchase a block of live-in care, you can still spot purchase on an ad-hoc basis. This is usually purchased by or on behalf of a single service user and is readily available whenever you need it.
Talk to our
partnerships team
We believe that everyone should have the choice of being cared for within their own home, regardless of age, diagnosis and level of support required.
If you’d like to discuss how Agincare’s live-in care solution could help you ensure everyone gets that choice, please call our Public Sector Partnerships team.
Frequently asked questions
We are a family-owned care provider, trusted by families to deliver reliable, high-quality professional care services since 1986. We have a succesful track record of working with people drawing on our services, their families, health and social care professionals and public sector partners to deliver high quality, specialist care, tailored to each individual person.
Agincare also has strong relationships with many local authorities, some spanning over 30 years and has over 75 home care contracts across England.
The Care Quality Commission is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. They inspect and regulate different care services, including home care, care homes and live-in care and base their inspection on five key questions: Are they safe? Are they effective? Are they caring? Are they responsive to people’s needs? And are they well-led?
Our reports can be found on the CQC website and on our website.
Agincare’s is one the largest independent care providers nationwide. Our quality professional care services include home care, live-in care, assisted living (extra care), care and nursing homes, supported living and more.
Use our care options tool or call our expert advisors on 08082 566038 to find out the right service for you in your location.
Our live-in care services are helping to increase daily discharge rates, increase patient flow into the community and reduce the risk of medically fit for discharge (MFFD) patients de-compensating in acute systems.
The benefits of live-in care for NHS partners include reducing delayed transfers of care (DToC) and stranded patients, reducing inequality of access by ensuring care is available regardless of age, diagnosis and level of support required, freeing bed capacity
and assisting medically fit for discharge (MFFD) patients out of acute hospitals.
The benefits of live-in care for local authority partners include freeing up capacity in the community, supporting hard-to-reach people, reducing admission to residential care homes, reducing rates of admission into acute systems and regular re-assessing and right-sizing of care packages.