Guidance and counselling services

Tender description

NHS Luton Clinical Commissioning Group and Luton Council are jointly commissioning an integrated health and wellbeing service that will work with our communities to proactively deliver a preventative approach that emphasises the whole person and which works to achieve the optimum levels of physical, mental, social and emotional health. The Luton wellbeing service will have one lead (Prime) provider who may work with local partner organisations under a single branding, promoting ‘one-service’, regardless of whether different organisations are delivering components of the service. The Luton Wellbeing service will be an integral part of Primary Care Home which is our Luton clinical model that enables the public to access wellbeing support in their locality. The range of wellbeing services included within the scope of the procurement will be: — Primary Care Mental Health Assessment and Liaison Service — Talking Therapies — Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) — Live Well Luton healthy lifestyle services — Weight Management (all ages), Healthy Living, Exercise Referral on referral — Physical activity — Smoking Cessation Services and Tobacco control including prevention in schools — Social Prescription — Community Health checks While the service will cover a full life course for healthy lifestyles, and will support, physical, social emotional and mental health prevention, alongside resilience for families and children, working with existing services to achieve this, the majority of the scope will initially relate to adults 16+ with future scope to include greater focus on children's mental wellbeing. It is expected that the mobilisation of the service will be over a period of 2 years.