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Aged Residential Care (ARC) - Physical Capacity Recovery Plan - June 2011
Age Related Hospital Specialised Service Agreement 2011 - Base Document
District Nursing and Home Support Services
LinkAGE - Strategy
Link to Audit Summary Reports
After the 22 February earthquake, Canterbury lost over 600 aged care residential beds. Several facilities were destroyed, and approximately 300 residents had to be urgently relocated to other parts of New Zealand. Others were required to share rooms or be accommodated in communal areas within care facilities. As a result, the number of beds becoming available on a day-to-day basis within Canterbury to cater for additional (new) people requiring residential care is very limited. This will probably continue until facilities can be repaired or new facilities built, which is unlikely to occur in the next 12 months.
Consequently, Canterbury DHB convened an expert panel to develop these
guidelines for determining who should be allocated the residential beds as they
become available within Canterbury. The panel developing the guidelines
comprised older person health clinicians, general practice, aged care advocates,
and an ethicist.
The Guidelines will operate for six months (from 1 April 2011 until 30 September 2011) at which point they will be reviewed and, if required, amended to reflect the situation at that time. The ultimate goal is to repatriate back to Canterbury each person who was displaced, if they wish to return. However this may take a long time to accomplish this.
Guidelines for Placing People into Residential Care after the Canterbury Earthquakes - 412.54KB PDF
The Canterbury DHB (CDHB) have pleasure in providing the following, current, generic copy of the Age Related Residential Care Agreement for rest home, dementia rest home, hospital and dementia hospital level care 2010. This should be read in conjunction with your Admission Agreement. If you have any queries regarding any anomalies with the service you or a family member are receiving in residential care, please telephone the Residential Help line 0800 737 777 or the Aged Care Contract Team at Planning & Funding at Canterbury DHB.
Assignment is the process of transferring agreements from existing to new providers. This occurs at the time of purchase, when a facility is sold. The assignment form provides a way to assign service agreement obligations from one provider to another.
Within the Canterbury region and in accordance with the Aged Related Residential Care Agreement section A30.2 – Sale or Transfer of Facility, you must notify the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) of such intention at least 30 days prior to the date of the intended transfer or disposal of your Facility; and advise any proposed purchaser or transferee of the Facility that this agreement will only apply to that Person if the CDHB consent to the assignment of this agreement in accordance with clause A30.
The following Service Specification outlines the criteria for service delivery for SupportCare End-of-Life and SupportCare Severe Medical Illness services specifically in residential care facilities. This service specification will attach to a long head of agreement to form one contract for selected aged residential care providers for delivery of these services. The one contract will replace individual contracts which are administratively time consuming, which often results in delays to providers.
SupportCare End-of-Life services may only be provided in continuing care hospitals. It replaces the previous palliative care service. SupportCare Severe Medical Illness services may be provided in rest homes or continuing care hospitals depending on the Support Needs Level (SNL) of the client. It replaces the previous chronic medical illness service. Funding will align with daily rates paid under the age related residential care agreement relevant to specific TLAs. This new initiative progresses the new SupportCare initiative which was launched on 1 May 2005.
The Healthy Ageing, Integrated Support Strategy is the Canterbury District Health Board's regional response to build on the Government's Health of Older People Strategy 2002. In 2005 the Canterbury DHB established a project to develop a strategy to provide direction for the provision of health services for the elderly over the next five years. An expert stakeholder group consisting of older people, primary and community providers, specialist service providers and other related agencies such as the city council advised the project. The strategy is older person centred and promotes ageing in place by building service capacity in non-institutional areas and promoting integrated, flexible, holistic and efficient home based support services. It builds on the current strong service base for older people in Canterbury. The first document is the strategy February 2006 as signed off by the Board. The other documents provide back ground support to the strategy's development.
The following are currently under review
