Community health services

Tender description

NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is procuring adult community health services using a process similar to a competitive procedure with negotiation. The CCG wants a single provider to deliver adult community services for a term of up to 10 years across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. 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. The indicative budget is about 105 000 000 GBP per annum to cover all core adult community services, including integrated locality teams, locality hubs, acute and reactive care and specialist advice and support. It is expected that mobilisation will begin from August/September 2019 and the service will go live from 1.4.2020. To view full information and/or express an interest visit: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is procuring adult community health services for the entire CCG 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 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday 22.1.2019. A market engagement event will be held on Monday 21.1.2019. Bidders wishing to attend this should notify the CCG by 5:00 pm on Thursday 17 January. The service will begin on 1.4.2020. The Contract will be for a period of up to 10 years. The indicative budget is 105 000 000 GBP per annum, excluding CQUIN. The CCG wants to ensure consistency across the geography so requires one provider to deliver at least 85 % of the contract value itself. The contract will cover all core adult community health services, focusing on four 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 their condition. Access to community services will be through a single point of access that will respond in a timely manner and develop a consistent care plan and named contact for the person being referred, — 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 to help people remain in the community and enable prompter discharge from hospital, — specialist advice and support has clinical staff knowledgeable about specific conditions such as diabetes and heart failure. There is an expectation that community services will strengthen links between secondary care and primary care and ensure that patients, carers and professionals within the community are empowered to better understand and manage specialist clinical conditions, — locality hubs are a range of service models that 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 that support wellbeing and promote proactive care and self-management. These 4 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) and work towards implementing the STP vision for an integrated care system. The provider must be willing to be part of a provider alliance with primary care localities. To view full information and/or express an interest visit: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home.