Health services

Tender description

The Contracting Authority, NHS Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking a suitably qualified provider to deliver an integrated Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Service to commence 1.4.2019. Delivering the new integrated service is critical to building care holistically around the needs of our local population to improve their outcomes and to support them to achieve wellbeing. The Contracting Authority, NHS Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking a suitably qualified provider to deliver an integrated Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Service to commence 1.4.2019. Delivering the new integrated service is critical to building care holistically around the needs of our local population to improve their outcomes and to support them to achieve wellbeing. Through integration with other services (including primary care), the new model will ensure improved outcomes for patients and wider efficiencies for the NHS, for example, in reducing A&E attendances, short stay admissions and prescribing costs. As part of its commitment to improving mental health and wellbeing services for its local population and in line with the mental health 5 year forward view, the Contracting Authority is undertaking this procurement exercise to secure a new model for an IAPT service that is fully integrated and as such has taken the decision not to break this service into lots of Core and LTC in order to integrate the core provision of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) with the provision for patients with long term conditions. The service delivery will be in line with the GP forward view and our local out of hospital strategy that seeks to improve the interface between primary care and IAPT services. The increase in access to psychological therapies incorporating LTC as part of the integrated service will be targeted with an expectation that 2-thirds of the additional people receiving services will have co-morbid physical and mental health conditions or persistent medically unexplained symptoms by 2020/21. It is expected that the service will be aligned to the CCGs 5 neighbourhoods, meaning more convenient and tailored treatment and relieving pressure on general practice as set out in the general practice forward view. Full details of the Contracting Authority requirements are set out the specification available within the procurement pack. All procurement documents relating to this opportunity are available at link: https://attain.force.com/s/ a supplier guide for responding to online tenders using the Atamis eTendering portal has been made available as an attachment to this notice. Further guidance can be accessed via the link above. Please note that the submission deadline is 17:00 on 22.8.2018.