Domiciliary Dental Services for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

Tender description

NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands CSU on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement - Midlands would like to inform you of a future opportunity to provide Domiciliary Dental Services across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (excluding Bassetlaw). The Commissioner is carrying out a market assessment exercise to engage with potential providers to gather information from the market. Potential providers are asked to complete the market assessment questionnaire by 10:00am on Friday 16th August 2019. The Commissioner has also attached a draft Service Specification which contains information on the service. Potential bidders should note that the Service Specification is a draft version and that a final Service Specification will be issued when the ITT is published, early September 2019. Domiciliary dental services are concerned with providing and enabling the improvement of oral health of individuals and groups in society who have a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, or medical factor that limits their ability to access oral health care services appropriate to their needs. The service will provide a domiciliary dental service to residents of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. This includes to care homes and patients confined to their own homes, including a full clinical examination, an oral health risk assessment and appropriate treatment, including preventive care, to patients with long term and/or progressive medical conditions; mental illness or dementia, causing disorientation and confusion in unfamiliar environments; or increasing frailty who are unable to travel to a dental surgery and who could not otherwise access dental care.