Adult community health services in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

Tender description

NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is procuring adult community health services in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire geography. The procurement is using a bespoke approach similar to a competitive procedure with negotiation. In order to take part in the first round of negotiation meetings, potential bidders must notify the CCG of their intent to take part no later than 4pm on Tuesday 22 January 2019. Register at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home. The service will begin on 1 April 2020. The Contract will be for a period of up to 10 years. The indicative budget is £105m per annum. The CCG wants to ensure consistency across the geography. The CCG defines this as one provider delivering at least 85% of the Contract value itself. The Contract will cover all core adult community health services, focusing on four overarching service specifications: • Integrated locality teams focusing on relationships with primary care through regular multidisciplinary team meetings to support people who have relatively stable needs to manage and reduce the risk of acute worsening of their condition. Access to community services will be through a single point of access. • Urgent and reactive care teams working across localities to manage people who have acutely worsening conditions. This includes rapid response and has links to secondary care and community beds. • Specialist advice and support has clinical staff knowledgeable about specific conditions such as diabetes and heart failure. There is an expectation that the community service will strengthen links between secondary care and primary care and ensure that patients, carers and professionals are empowered to better understand and manage the condition. • Locality hubs are provided through physical building(s) and/or virtual connections of professionals within a locality that give people and professionals across a larger area access to services to support wellbeing and promote prevention and self-management. These four groupings combine services according to the level of complexity of people they support, all designed to help people to stay in the community. The CCG wants to ensure a safe transfer of services so that from the start of the contract patients and carers experience as a minimum the same level of service that they have been receiving, with no gaps in provision. The Provider needs to become a long-term system partner, providing person-centred care, working closely with primary care leadership and being flexible to transition towards more integrated and innovative working during the life of the contract. The Provider needs to be part of Healthier Together, the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP), work towards implementing the STP vision for an integrated care system and be willing to be part of a provider alliance with primary care localities.