Health and social work services

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London Boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Ealing are collaborating as part of the North West London(NWL) Outer sub region to procure an integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health Service. This is part of the London Sexual Health Transformation Programme (LSHTP) involving all boroughs led by West London Alliance (WLA). The London Sexual Health Services Transformation Programme aims to deliver a new collaborative commissioning model across the participating councils for sexual health services in London and in particular open access GUM services. London Boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Ealing are collaborating as part of the Outer North West London (ONWL) Sub Region to procure an integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health Service. This service will provide an effective local sexual health system, which responds with flexibility to changing needs, in partnership with primary care and other providers to deliver open access, integrated sexual health care and prevention, including the testing, diagnosis and treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI's) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and contraception, in accessible services that are relevant to each borough's population' needs. This is part of the London Sexual Health Transformation Programme (LSHTP) which involves all London boroughs. ONWL, as part of the LSHTP, aims to deliver a new model of clinical service delivery which is fully integrated with the new London on-line self sampling service. The LSHTP participating boroughs will be able to benefit from any contract procured by the ONWL Sub Region in respect of the services procured and tendered prices in respect of the open access nature of the services. The participating boroughs are looking for an innovative approach to the provision of an integrated sexual health service. The successful bidder will need to deliver: (1) High quality clinical services; (2) Effective demand management during the life of the contract; (3) Improved public health outcomes with a particular focus on reducing late HIV diagnosis, unwanted pregnancies and the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) amongst high risk groups; (4) And effective use of limited resources, whilst providing excellent value for money and social value and (5) The delivery of a system-wide approach including strong collaboration and sub-contracting arrangements with key partners, as the lead provider.