Health services

Tender description

NHS England sought to procure Healthcare Provision for adult males, young people, women, immigration detainees, foreign national prisoners and older prisoners in Prisons and an Immigration Removal Centre (IRC). The scope of the service provision model comprised the populations of the 11 in-scope establishments across Thames Valley, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The Tender was split into 3 lots: Lot 1: HMYOI Aylesbury; HMP Grendon; HMP Springhill. Lot 2: HMP Bullingdon; IRC Campsfield; HMP Huntercombe. Lot 3: HMP Bristol; HMP Leyhill; HMP Erlestoke; HMP Ashfield; HMP Eastwood Park The service model tendered was designed to deliver: — An integrated and coherent healthcare delivery model across the 3 lots comprising the 11 establishments as aligned to both local healthcare systems and to local offender management pathways; — The 3 key strategic commissioning goals for offenders' health: to reduce health inequalities; to ensure services are integrated; and to reduce health risk factors; — Improved provider capability and capacity, including effective and simplified contracting models with robust subcontracting and supply chain arrangements to deliver improved service quality and performance; — Greater value for money from whole system capability and capacity, including more efficient operations underpinned by strengthened contract management arrangements; and — Cost improvement from testing the market through a competitive tender to secure new provision through contract(s) award and a subsequent innovative contracting model (prime contractor model). Services in scope were: — Prison General Practitioner (Medical); — Healthcare Nursing and Administration Service; — Integrated Mental Health and Learning Disability Service; — Integrated Substance Misuse Service (ISMS); — Dental Services; — Optometry Service; — Pharmacy and Medicines Management; — Sexual Health and Genitourinary Medicines (GUM); — Therapies; — Health Promotion and Prevention (Section 7a); — Audiology; — Information Management and Technology.