Video-surveillance system

Tender description

The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board who are issuing this PIN to engage with the market to seek available options for a remote viewing/recorded solution for observational behavioural assessment. The National Institute for Clinical Evidence (NICE) issued guidance in May 2015 to address the needs of children with learning disability whose behaviour challenges those caring for them. Early intervention, support to families and behavioural assessment are amongst the practice recommendations that help. Supporting parents to manage their child’s behaviour requires high quality behavioural assessment. Observational methods have a range of benefits over other assessment methods. Observations can be made in real-life situations, allowing the practitioner access to the context and meaning surrounding what actually happens between parent and child. However, this form of direct observation encounters the problem of the observer effect, where the act of observing changes what is being observed. A child or parent will probably act differently when a practitioner is in their family home. Observations can also be carried out using a 2-way-mirror in a clinic room, where a parent and child can interact on their own whilst being observed by people from another room. Whilst this mitigates against the observer effect, it represents an artificial situation for the child and parent which disrupts the way a child and parent relate and behave — the patterns that are the subject of interest. The Health Board are looking for a solution to enable them to remotely view recorded video interactions between parents and their children in their family home. Initially, the Health Board would not wish to view in real-time, however, we may require this function within the future. There is a growing interest in the use of technology in healthcare and the Health Board would wish to pilot any remote camera system solution with an aim to: — view how it might aid in their assessments, — evaluate the solution’s usefulness, effectiveness and its ease of use. These findings would be disseminated to other professionals via presentations and journal articles. Based on this information, the Health Board would like to invite expressions of interest from suppliers who could provide a potential solution to this requirement. Suppliers are asked to initially send an email to the Procurement department contact in this notice with an outline of their proposal by the 7.10.2019. Following this, the Health Board may wish to invite the supplier for a discussion in order to fully understand the suggested solution and to enable a proposal draft to be developed.