Health and social work services

Tender description

NHS Shared Business Services is looking to gauge market interest and conditions for the provision Provision of Patient Discharge Services for adults 18 years and above. The purpose of this Early Engagement Notice is to: — Share a vision and proposal on the way forward. — Gather views and comments from a range of providers and interested parties. A delayed transfer of care is where a patient is ready and safe to leave hospital care, but is unable to do so, and remains occupying a hospital bed. Hospital discharge schemes are proven to significantly reduce delayed transfers of care (DTOC) and prevent "bed blocking". The main objectives of this proposed framework are: — Reduce the resource pressure on acute hospital beds with improved discharge services. — Reduce pressure on Social Services. — Reduce instances of re-admission to hospital. — Discharge of patients meeting specific clinical criteria into a safe, high quality care environment. 1. Domiciliary Care in your Own Home, (low level support, extended support or overnight stay). Take home and settle, this would include transport home and offers low level support to settle an individual back into their home. Extended support on the first visit while they are getting settled back in, to include shopping for basic essentials, making up beds, and ensuring that the house is clean and tidy. This is essential for patients with little or no family support; 2. Bed Based Intermediate Care (or Step Down Beds, possibly in a residential home). The Service will offer rapid response, short-term home based care to people who are ready to be discharged from hospital and have been initially assessed as requiring a home care package. It will deliver support while longer term services are being organised. 3. Third party care brokerage (a service for Care Home selection and/or Domiciliary Care provider selection)