Health services

Tender description

The Authority is intending to award a contract for primary care psychological support to adults, meeting the needs of the local population, offering a flexible model of delivery. The new service is expected to increase the proportion of people with common mental health disorders who are identified, assessed and receive treatment in accordance with appropriate NICE guidance. It is expected that the service will work to improve the speed of access and response to patient need, increase the proportion of people with common mental health disorders covered by the service who make a clinically significant improvement or recovery, increase social participation and community integration of services users, and improve service user experience of services. The new service will incorporate a range of primary care psychological therapy services for adults including: — a single point of entry, — assessment, including complex assessment, — an IAPT service including a step 3+ and counselling provision, delivering 5 Year Forward View targets, — a non-IAPT pathway including bereavement counselling. The service will be provided for adults with specific pathways for priority groups. The estimated annual contract value is 3 447 502 GBP. Total estimated value for 5 years is 17 237 510 GBP. The contract will be for a base period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years. It is anticipated that the new service will commence in October 2018.