NHS England - East Health and Justice Commissioning: Health Needs Assessment (Police Custody)

Tender description

NHS England wishes to commission health needs assessments for the healthcare service in police custody. Bidders are expected to undertake interviews of appropriate commissioners to elicit the information they need, as well as accessing data from relevant sources. The reports must have a section at the end in which all the recommendations are stated in a single section. Recommendations should be clear, robust and substantiated by the foregoing report. The provider of the HNA must provide both an initial draft and a final draft of the report for comment in Word. This allows comments to be made within the text of the initial draft, and also allows extraction of the text from the final draft for insertion into other documents. The initial and final drafts must be delivered to claire.weston2@nhs.net. Bidders must be in a position to provide a draft of the report(s) they have been contracted to provide by 4th March 2016. Bidders are expected to notify the commissioner every two weeks of progress towards delivery of the initial and final drafts. The opportunity will be advertised to any potential provider in w/ending 27/11/15 and bids must be submitted by 23rd December 2015. NHS England will notify all bidders of the outcome by 8th January 2016.