Health and social work services

Tender description

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement – East of England (referred to as the Commissioners) wish to inform the market of a future procurement opportunity for Child Health Information Services (CHIS) across the East of England region. This encompasses Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Norfolk and Suffolk. The Services are due to commence 1 April 2022. The Commissioners are running a market assessment questionnaire to engage with interested providers to gather information. Potential providers are to complete a market assessment questionnaire by 10 a.m. on Monday 4 January 2021, which is being published as a standalone notice within EU Supply. Therefore, please register your interest against: Quote/tender 42268-Child Health Information Services for East of England and complete and submit the questionnaire. The CHIS service consists of three components an IT system, the Child Health Information Service System (CHISS), a child health records department (CHRD), and a personal child health record (PCHR), otherwise known as the Red Book. They also form the basis in some instances of an Electronic Child Health record. The service’s primary function is to provide a comprehensive local record of a child’s public health (screening, immunisation and other health protection or health improvement interventions including the Healthy Child programme 0-5) and of their community-based healthcare. As well as providing this database of information required for secondary purpose in some instances, CHIS has been developed to support the delivery of care to individual children and have become integrated within an electronic community child health record. Child Health Information Services and Systems play a critical role in the scheduling, recording and monitoring of public health programmes, including vaccination delivery and immunisation status of children in England. There are definitive sources of immunisation uptake and coverage within England and, as such, is essential to limiting the spread of communicable diseases. CHIS provides information about individual children’s health (which can be useful e.g. during an outbreak of a disease for which some children may be immunised), but also provides a population-perspective, enabling effective targeting of services (e.g. they capture non-GP-registered children enabling a whole population view to be taken about needs to inform a commissioning strategy).