Health services

Tender description

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust (LCFT) is seeking to appoint one or more suppliers to provide a clinical services framework for patients requiring Step 3 Counselling Services (Lot 1) and Step 3 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) (Lot 2). Lancashire Care Foundation Trust provides clinical assessment, intervention, and evaluation of patients requiring counselling and CBT as part of its Mindsmatter service. In order to reduce waiting times for patients waiting to be assessed, we require a partner organisation to perform counselling assessments and intervention. These will be done by appropriately qualified and experienced clinical staff. The successful bidder(s) will undertake clinical assessment of patients requiring counselling and provide up to 8 one-hour sessions per patient including face to face, telephone, group and/ or on-line counselling sessions (where appropriate) to achieve “caseness”, in line with national recovery, rollout and waiting time targets. In order to reduce waiting times for patients waiting to be assessed, we require a partner organisation to perform CBT assessments and intervention. These will be done by appropriately qualified and experienced clinical staff. The successful bidder(s) will undertake clinical assessment of CBT patients and provide up to 12 one-hour sessions per patient including face to face, telephone, group and/or on-line CBT sessions (where appropriate) to achieve “caseness”, in line with national recovery, rollout and waiting time targets. All services must be delivered in accordance with the national IAPT manual and local policies and procedures.