NHS England and NHS Improvement South Integrated Healthcare Service to Thames Valley Prisons - Market Engagement

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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 Thames Valley prisons, to be confirmed but likely to include and potentially lotted as follows; Lot 1 • HMP Grendon (Category B or C mens) • HMP Springhill (Category D Mens) • HMP Huntercombe (Category C, Foreign National) (c£3.7m per annum) Lot 2 • HMP Bullingdon (Remand prison - mens and also YOI 18 - 21) (c£6.3m per annum) Lot 3 • HM YOI Aylesbury (Men aged 17-21) (Young Offender Institution) (c£1.4m per annum) NHS England will commission a prime provider model for the provision of services for each confirmed lot, and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers. The contract commencement date is 1st April 2021. The total indicative annual contract value for all establishments is approximately £11.4m. 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 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 community 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 At this time, NHSEI would like to determine the level of provider interest in preparation for a market engagement event, to be held end of January / early February 2020, likely to be in Reading. The aim of the market engagement event is to work with potential prime providers to understand opportunities and barriers to providing these services and to assist commissioners with shaping their procurement strategy.