Health and social work services

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North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) working for and on behalf of NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) proposes to engage with the wider market to inform future service model development and/or commissioning intentions for the provision of a primary care dementia support service for the population of the CCG area. Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group is interested to hear from providers who could deliver a Dementia support service which would be integrated with Primary Care in Newcastle and Gateshead. This service would be required to demonstrate the successful use of the Dementia Register to reach people diagnosed with dementia who were often otherwise not receiving any support. The primary aim of the service is for every person existing and newly diagnosed with dementia to have access to a named dementia support worker. The service would be expected to gather feedback for service users to continuously improve the service, report results of the evaluation to commissioners. The budget for this service is GBP 500 000 for 4 years North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) working for and on behalf of NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) proposes to engage with the wider market to inform future service model development and/or commissioning intentions for the provision of a primary care dementia support service for the population of the CCG area. Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group is interested to hear from providers who could deliver a dementia support service which would be integrated with Primary Care in Newcastle and Gateshead. This service would be required to demonstrate the successful use of the dementia register to reach people diagnosed with dementia who were often otherwise not receiving any support. The primary aim of the service is for every person existing and newly diagnosed with dementia to have access to a named dementia support worker. The service would be expected to gather feedback for service users to continuously improve the service, report results of the evaluation to commissioners. The budget for this service is GBP 500 000 for 4 years.