NHS England and NHS Improvement South East - Virtual Market Engagement Event - Integrated Healthcare Services to HMPs Send, Downview, Coldingley, High Down and Bronzefield

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This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice and relates only to a pre-procurement market virtual engagement event and questionnaire. NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) South East invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced Prime Providers who have the capability and capacity, to provide integrated healthcare services, equivalent to that available to the local community to Surrey prisons. The prisons in scope are to be confirmed, but are expected to include: • HMP Send • HMP Downview • HMP Coldingley • HMP High Down • HMP Bronzefield NHS England will commission a prime provider model for the provision of services 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 indicative date for the contract to commence is 1st April 2022. The indicative annual contract value is £24 million. 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 • GP provision • 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 • Perinatal Mental Health Service for the female South East estate • Sexual Health Services • Integrated Substance Misuse Services • Inpatient Units at HMP High Down and HMP Bronzefield • Public Health programmes including health promotion and smoking cessation • Pharmacy Services including Medicine Management Service Delivery • Dentistry • Optometry, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, and musculoskeletal provision • Appropriate administrative support (including data intelligence and reporting resource) • Section 7A Public Health Screening • IM&T provision • Escort and bed watches • Constant watch In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring that effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services.