Health and social work services

Tender description

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) works for and on behalf of NHS South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) who wish to commission a Frail and/or Elderly Community Assessment Unit based at Redcar Primary Care Hospital and accessible to patients registered with a South Tees GP practice, or a resident of South Tees. North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) works for and on behalf of NHS South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) who wish to commission a Frail and/or Elderly Community Assessment Unit based at Redcar Primary Care Hospital and accessible to patients registered with a South Tees GP practice, or a resident of South Tees. The CCG would like to commission a high quality, multi-disciplinary service designed to ensure that older people who are referred to the service have access to a comprehensive geriatric assessment, led by either an Elderly Care Consultant or General Practitioner with Specialist Interest (GPwSI) in elderly care, receive a medical and / or social care diagnosis by a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), and are able to access treatment in the most appropriate setting without unnecessary delays, transfers of care or unnecessary admission to hospital. The service provider will deliver a Consultant and/or GPwSI led MDT frail and/or complex patient clinic 3 sessions per week, on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at Redcar Primary Care Hospital, seeing up to 4 new and 1 review patients per clinic. The number of appointments per clinic will be reviewed after 6 months to understand if there is capacity to increase this. The Multidisciplinary team will consist of: Consultant and/or GPwSI, Nurse, Health Care Assistant, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker. The service will aim to provide a coherent, multi-disciplinary service designed to deliver care across traditional organisational boundaries that supports and adds value to patient care from General Practice and Primary Care and utilises community and acute provision to ensure patient needs are managed in a proactive, anticipatory, holistic and integrated way. The service is to commence from 1.4.2018 for a period of 2 years with the option to extend the contract by a further 1 year period, subject to satisfactory contractual performance. Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, the contracting authority must consider: How what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of South Tees and how, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing the improvement. This will be tested via the response to the tender. NECS is utilising an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with potential bidders. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to potential bidders and all communications with NECS, including your submission, will be conducted via the PROACTIS portal https://www.proactisplaza.com/SupplierPortal/?CID=NECS It is free to register on the portal, and it can be accessed at any time of day providing you have a working internet connection.