Hospital and related services

Tender description

The aim of the service is to deliver an effective integrated multidisciplinary community based palliative and end of life care service which provides care for patients aged 18+ years requiring domiciliary end of life care, complex symptom management and assessment of their changing condition and/or disease progression. The focus of the service is to improve the quality of care for patients at the end of their life with the aim of ensuring that patients have the optimum quality of life until death. It will achieve this by working collaboratively across primary, secondary care and third sector to facilitate choice in respect to preferred priorities for care and death and thereby contributes towards reducing avoidable hospital admissions and reducing length of stay. The service will educate and empower individuals and their families so they can make informed choices about treatments, management of care, End of Life Care including all palliative current/future care needs. A full breakdown of the contract details is available on the CCG's eTendering portal (https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk) or through direct email to mariadean@nhs.net. The CCG will also make this information freely available on their website. https://www.hambletonrichmondshireandwhitbyccg.nhs.uk/