Health services

Tender description

NHS Wakefield is procuring a community MSK service to support its longer term plans for MSK services across the District. The future vision for MSK services in Wakefield includes: — Good outcomes for patients and good patient experience; — Integrated services; — Clear, well managed patient flows and clinical pathways; — Accurate and early diagnosis; — Embedding supported self-care and physical activity; — Reducing duplication; — Care closer to home; — Accurate and timely data to support service development. The Community MSK service will be part of this longer term vision, providing a community based service with access to community consultant-led orthopaedics — preferably within the same locations. The service will provide comprehensive, evidence based MSK services for the triage, assessment and treatment of muscle ligament and non-operative orthopaedic and rheumatology conditions. This will include: — Provisions of new and follow-up appointments; — Full assessment and physical examination as clinically appropriate; — Diagnosis and treatment where applicable by a specialist doctor or a specialist physiotherapist; — Injection treatments; — Referral to other services as appropriate. The provider of this service will ensure: — Efficient access and management of new and follow-up appointments; — A commitment to developing innovative pathways and best practice MSK services within a community setting; — Delivery of local and national waiting time targets; — Consistently high standards of service provision and delivery; — A high quality service demonstrated through patient feedback.