Discharge to assess contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most discharge to assess contracts took 19% of them (14 of 73).
• The median contract, £913k, is 3.3 times the median across social care contracts (£281k).
• South West had the most contracts: 19, or 26% of the total.

1. 1NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board11 contracts£18.0m
2. 2NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board5 contracts£10.0m
3. 3West Sussex County Council4 contracts£4.7m
4. 4Somerset Council3 contracts£16.2m
5. 5Royal Borough of Greenwich3 contracts£7.9m
6. 6Nottinghamshire County Council3 contracts£3.3m
7. 7NHS Devon Integrated Care Board3 contracts£186k
8. 8Gloucestershire County Council2 contracts£11.2m
9. 9Suffolk County Council2 contracts£9.0m
10. 10South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£2.9m

1. 1Brunelcare4 contracts£6.1m
2. 2Restful Homes Group3 contracts£5.7m
3. 3TuVida3 contracts£3.3m
4. 4Eleanor Nursing and Social Care2 contracts£7.6m
5. 5AMG Nursing and Care Services2 contracts£2.0m
6. 6Care UK2 contracts£2.0m
7. 7Cedar Care Homes2 contracts£1.9m
8. 8Blue Marine Care LLP2 contracts£1.3m
9. 9The Orders of St John Care Trust2 contracts£417k
10. 10Network Healthcare Professionals2 contracts£136k

Latest

• Discharge to Access Service- (West Locality) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.4m

  Suffolk County Council to MORAR PAGHAM LTD · Awarded 21 September 2026

• Home First, Discharge to Assess & Recovery Beds (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £7.1m

  Royal Borough of Greenwich to Eleanor Nursing and Social Care · Awarded 16 September 2026

• Call off for Discharge to Assess (DTA) under the North Northamptonshire Council for the Provision of Home Care Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £208k

  North Northamptonshire Council to ALPHA HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE SERVICES LTD, Aroma Care People Limited, Ashvic 24/7 Quality Care Services Limited, Better living support group ltd and CT Care Ltd · Awarded 28 August 2026

• Support and Personal Care Dynamic Purchasing System Call-Off Agreement for Stirchley House Enablement Care Block (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £412k

  Telford & Wrekin Council to GP Homecare Ltd t/a Radis Community Care · Awarded 20 August 2026

• Home First Services Framework Agreement Call-Off Contract 8: 24 Hour Emergency Homecare Response Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.8m

  Nottinghamshire County Council to TuVida · Awarded 19 August 2026

• Warwickshire Care Home Pathway 2 Residential Short Stay Bed Block Contracts (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £29.0m

  Warwickshire County Council to Butts Croft Limited, Runwood Homes, SERENE CARE LTD, SIMPLY CARE GROUP UK LTD and SIMPLY CARE GROUP UK LTD (Morar Care Home Stratford LTD - Morar Living - Trinity Manor) · Awarded 4 August 2026

• BSOL_Restful Homes (Solihull) Ltd_2026-27_Connaught House_P2/EAB UA (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.6m

  NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board to Restful Homes Group · Awarded 29 July 2026

• BSOL_Restful Homes (Sutton Coldfield) Ltd_2026-27_Asprey Court_P2/EAB UA (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.3m

  NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board to Restful Homes Group · Awarded 29 July 2026

• BSOL_1st Care Limited_2026-27_Acorn Care Home_P2/EAB UA (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.3m

  NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board to 1st Care Limited · Awarded 29 July 2026

• W5121 Interim Pathway 2 Rehabilitation Beds at Swan House (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £267k

  Walsall Council e-Tendering to ABSOLUTE HEALTHCARE SWAN HOUSE LIMITED · Awarded 28 July 2026

Largest

• NHS WYICB - Short-Term Community Beds Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £176m

  NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust · Awarded 23 February 2026

• Reablement Service (Intermediate Care - Pathway 1) in Somerset - Discharge to Admission (D2A) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £15.5m

  Somerset Council to Bluebird Care (Carlisle & Dumfries), Lifeline Homecare Ltd and Somerset Care Limited · Awarded 14 November 2025

• Gloucestershire County Council Pathway 2 Beds (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £10.0m

  Gloucestershire County Council to Agincare Homes Holdings Ltd, Bupa Care Homes and The Orders of St John Care Trust · Awarded 27 January 2026

• Discharge to Assess (D2A) beds contract for Lot 1 Ipswich & East (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £7.6m

  Suffolk County Council to Athena Care Homes · Awarded 19 May 2026

• Transitional Care Beds - Lincolnshire (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.3m

  Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust to Care for your life Ltd and Orchard House Nursing Home Ltd · Awarded 24 July 2026

Short-term personal care at home that starts within hours or on the day of discharge: discharge-to-assess (pathway 1) and Home First services, interim bridging until reablement or a long-term package is in place, and crisis or rapid response care that prevents a hospital or care home admission until needs are reassessed.

• Discharge to assess (pathway 1) care at home
• Home First services
• Interim bridging home care
• Hospital to home services with personal care
• Discharge support packages for older people
• Social care support for mental health hospital discharges
• Escalation care services
• Urgent crisis response care at home
• Admission avoidance home care

• Goal-focused reablement (soc.home.home-based-reablement)
• Live-in care arranged to support discharge (soc.home.live-in-care)
• Volunteer take home and settle services without personal care (soc.prev.home-from-hospital)
• Discharge-to-assess care home beds (soc.res.short-term-and-discharge-to-assess-beds)
• Telecare responders and falls pick-up (soc.equip.telecare-response-and-falls-pick-up)
• Clinical urgent community response teams (another industry: healthcare)

• Home care
• Residential care homes
• Complex care packages

• Minor ailments scheme
• End of life care