Care Services Efficiency Delivery
CSED helps councils to identify and develop more efficient ways of delivering adult social care. The programme is focused on efficiency solutions that support the transformation of adult social care, set out in Putting People First, and help deliver sustainable transformation with maximum benefit to service users.
Efficiency Solutions
Hot Topics
- Contracting for Outcomes
CSED's most recent paper on outcomes sets out the team's latest thinking and illustrates how to build outcomes into commissioning and contracting strategies. - Integrated Care and Support Pathway Planning
CSED has produced detailed practical guidelines to help councils and their partners plan integrated services. - Support Related Housing
Support Related Housing builds on care at home and housing integrated with health and social care. Collaboration and joint commissioning between councils and partner organisations can improve services and create efficiencies. - Assistive Technology
CSED has researched case studies to help councils understand the benefits of mainstreaming and integrating AT. - Crisis Response
Evidence shows that effective crisis or rapid response services improve outcomes for users and create operating efficiencies
Key Resources
- Transforming Community Equipment Services National Catalogue and Tariff
See latest updates to National Catalogue and Tariff March 2009. - Benefits of Homecare Re-ablement for people at different levels of need (January 2009)
Homecare Re-ablement has clear benefits even for those with relatively high levels of need. Read the latest published evidence from CSED. - TRACS
Tool for Rapid Analysis of Care Services can help councils achieve substantial efficiencies by reducing the time involved in collating, analysing and quantifying opportunities within in-house and external social care services.
