Today, Salford City Council's Cabinet is meeting to approve, as an 'urgent' decision, a proposal to build the Bevan Intermediate Care Unit (IMCU), on the Salford Royal Hospital car park on Stott Lane, with a loss of seven car parking spaces.
The two-storey, sixty bed Unit, will replace The Limes and Barton Brook, and will include day rooms for patients and a therapy garden.
The Council aims to borrow 'up to £10.4million' to build the unit (although these costs could reduce), and the funding will be recovered, states a Council report, "through the ICO [Integrated Care Organisation] pooled budget over a lease term of 25 years".
The Council would receive £580,500 "annual repayments to cover the full cost of borrowing (i.e. loan repayments and interest) over the 25 year lease term" it adds "This will be cost neutral from a Council perspective in terms of borrowing."
The Council will also employ, at a cost of £100,000, a 'management expert' to oversee the construction of the Unit, with the costs added to the lease.
The new Unit, the report states, "will allow the release of the Council's site at the 'Limes' where there is an emerging proposal for the development of an extra care facility".
The new Intermediate Care Unit, it explains, will "improve service user outcomes", allowing "more people to return home sooner". It will also "improve quality of care through reduced variation in delivery models", "provide increased patient access to nursing and therapy" and "improve safety through provision of recommended staffing levels, clinical monitoring, medicine safety, reduced handoffs and improved transitions".
The Unit, the report concludes, will also increase the 'efficiency of the service and improve patient experience'...It will offer "an environment, layout and space which enables privacy and dignity to be maintained, in addition to optimum care..."
If the proposal is approved today by the Cabinet, the building will be subject to planning permission at a panel in October...
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