The Harmonia Village - provision of residential nursing care and support services to people living with dementia

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Owned, and currently operated, by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (the 'Trust'), the Harmonia Village in Dover, Kent aims to provide better care and support for people living with dementia ('PLWD'), so that they can live happier and healthier lives. Part of a wider Interreg VA 2Seas programme known as Community Areas of Sustainable Care and Dementia Excellence in Europe ('CASCADE'), the Harmonia Village offers on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week residential nursing home care and support for up to i) 30 PLWD who require long-term placements across six houses, and ii) six hotel style booked 'guest rooms' - within the communal building (the 'Hub') - offering short-term placements to PLWD and their visiting carers / family. The Hub is at the heart of the Harmonia Village, offering PLWD, their guests and visitors, other organisations and the public, access to a café and multi-purpose rooms, where daily activities, events and services can provide stimulating and creative activities to PLWD to boost their health and well-being. Further information about the Harmonia Village is available from http://www.harmoniavillage.org.uk The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the Trust's ability to deliver the services as originally intended, so much so that the Trust is now looking to outsource the operational delivery of the residential nursing home care and support services at the Harmonia Village to a suitably experienced provider who will partner with the Trust, and share in its vision, to deliver a new approach to care of PLWD. Interested providers of CQC registered accommodation for persons aged 65 years and over living with dementia and who require 'nursing' and 'treatment of disease, disorder or injury' care are invited to: a) register for, and attend, a virtual market warming engagement event, and discussion group, with the Trust's commissioners, which is anticipated to take place w/c 20th September 2021. NB up to two representatives from an interested provider may register, with guidance on how to do so available within the Attachments section of the e-Tendering portal; and b) additionally register for - if the interested provider wishes to do so after the virtual market warming engagement event - and attend, an individual virtual Q & A session with the Trust's commissioners. Each session is anticipated to last a maximum of one hour; and c) complete a series of questions about viable service delivery models which will help the Trust to achieve its vision for the Harmonia Village and partnership working, with responses to be submitted via the e-Tendering portal by no later than 12:00 noon on Wednesday, 6th October 2021.