NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) - Market Engagement Event- Integrated Healthcare Service to Kent and Medway Prisons

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NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced Prime Providers, including third sector and social enterprise organisations, private and NHS organisations, to provide integrated pharmacy and primary healthcare services, and mental health and substance misuse services to Kent and Medway prisons, to be confirmed but likely to include; HMP Swaleside; HMP Elmley; HMP Standford Hill; HMP Maidstone; HMP East Sutton Park; HMP Rochester & HMP Cookham Wood. Provision includes an In Patient Unit at HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside. NHS England will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers. The indicative date for the contract to commence is 1st April 2021. The indicative annual contract value is £23,385,355. This service will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. Close joint working with other healthcare services, as well as other departments within the prison such as Education, Offender Management, and Physical Education, is imperative to the success of the delivery of this service. The clinical healthcare services in the contract are likely to include (but are not limited to): •Primary Care Nursing including Long Term Conditions nursing •Access to GP provision •Healthcare Administration •Multi Disciplinary approach to Pain Clinics •In Patients Unit Services including End of Life / Palliative Care •Mental health and emotional wellbeing services including: Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services •Sexual Health Services •Clinical Substance Misuse Services •Psycho-social interventions service for substance misusers •Integrated Substance Misuse Services •Public health programmes including health promotion (including smoking cessation) •Responsibility for ensuring Pharmacy Services-Including mechanism for OOH provision and Medicine Management Service Delivery •Dentistry •Access to Optometry, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, and musculoskeletal provision •Appropriate administrative support (including data intelligence and reporting resource) In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring: •effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with ccommunity based specialist health provision, including hospital based services •The provider may potentially be responsible for social care provision following assessment, subject to co-commissioning arrangements with local authorities