Health and social work services

Tender description

Public health nursing and associated services for 0-19 year olds within the Hull City Council area. Kingston upon Hull City Council is recommissioning its 0-19 public health nursing services. We are committed to giving every child the best start in life. This means both improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities. The 0-19 services will provide health and wellbeing support and interventions for children and families including (but not limited to) Health Visiting, School Nursing and oral health promotion services in Hull. This includes delivering the 0-5 and 5-9 healthy child programmes, the national child measurement programme, oral health promotion, as well as local public health priority outcomes. The services’ focus will be on prevention and early help, and will include both universal and targeted elements. The services will function as part of an integrated approach to improving children, young people and families’ health and wellbeing in Hull. The contract will incorporate provisions for its subsequent variation to facilitate future development of the 0-19’s services. The future service model for Doula and Breastfeeding Support will be considered as part of the overall scope of the commissioning exercise. The procurement process undertaken will be competition with negotiation, using this PIN as a call for competition and Hull City Council reserves the right to accept initial tenders without any further negotiation. Hull City Council also reserves the right to implement multiple rounds of negotiations if required