Health services

Tender description

Commissioners within NHS Hastings and Rother and Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG are looking to re-commissioning its Memory Assessment Service. This would be under a single provider Contract. The current service currently provides for 1,204 completed diagnostic episodes per annum. The proposed service to be commissioned will provide a Memory Assessment Service across the NHS Hastings and Rother and Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG areas. Financial year: 2020/21 = Indicative Budget (Per Annum): 366 000 GBP. The purpose of this RFI is to gauge market interest and feedback via the RFI Response form for the provision of a Memory Assessment Services and provide the CCG With valuable information to help update and improve the current service Specification. Please access the documents and return the questionnaire via the e-procurement portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home Please return the form by Midday Friday 31.5.2019. Commissioners within NHS Hastings and Rother and Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG are looking to re-commissioning its Memory Assessment Service. This would be under a single provider contract. The current service currently provides for 1 204 completed diagnostic Episodes per annum. The proposed service to be commissioned will provide a Memory Assessment Service across the NHS Hastings and Rother and Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG areas. Improvements in diagnostic provision have been evident within the CCG’s over the past 5 years and current rates of diagnosis continue to meet and exceed the NHSE 67 % expectation. The result being that early access to diagnostic provision and in turn flexible, practical community support services, to enable people to live well with the disease throughout the journey assumes a high priority. Our experience of the benefits to be accrued to the whole system has intensified our focus on the improvement of services for older people with dementia. The evolving evidence-base and emerging models of best practice such as Primary Care aligned Dementia Community Support Workers provide opportunities to reflect on how well local diagnostic provision is meeting the needs and aspirations of people living with dementia and their carers. The MAS is a key element of the overall dementia model of care in the CCG areas and its effective, efficient and person centred delivery is of vital importance. Current provision has seen high levels of satisfaction expressed by both patients and referring clinicians and significant progress around integrating IT systems and Data Sharing have been achieved. Learning from a recent independent academic evaluation of the current MAS service model highlighted the importance of excellent informal as well as formal communications with the referring GP community. In addition diffusion of learning and education across the primary care sector was demonstrated to add significant value to the local primary care economy. Potential providers will be expected to demonstrate how they would ensure the continuing implementation of this learning over the duration of the contract period. The MAS will be required to provide a Care Home In-reach diagnostic and Primary Care Practitioner Dementia Advice Clinic function as part of the service. It is anticipated that the service would be offered for tender under a Standard NHS contract for a period of 3 years commencing on the 1st April 2020 with option to extend for a maximum of a further two years. Contract start date: 1.4.2020 Contract end date: 31.3.2023 Financial year: 2020/21 = Indicative Budget (Per Annum): 366 000 GBP The purpose of this RFI is to gauge market interest and feedback via the RFI Response form for the provision of a Memory Assessment Services and provide the CCG With valuable information to help update and improve the current service Specification. Please access the documents and return the questionnaire via the e-procurement portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home Please return the form by Midday Friday 31.5.2019.