Health Systems Support Framework: Provision of Digital Social Prescribing Solutions

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The NHS is moving towards a more integrated model of care delivery through Integrated Care Systems (ICS). The Health Systems Support Framework (HSSF) was established to provide a mechanism for ICS and other health and social care organisations to access the support and services they need to transform how they deliver care. It focuses on specialist solutions that enable the digitisation of services and the use of data to drive proactive population heath management approaches across local and integrated provider teams.NHS England are inviting suppliers to bid for accreditation to a new Service Line within the Service Category of Patient Empowerment and Activation within the Health Systems Support Framework relating to the supply of services and software for social prescribing digital solutions.Further details, including a description of the services, is provided in the ITT documents available at the address above and Section IV : Complementary Information of this notice. Lot 1: NHS England and NHS Improvement are inviting suppliers to bid for accreditation to a new Service Line within the Service Category of Patient Empowerment and Activation of the Health Systems Support Framework. A full description of all service lines is provided within the ITT documents.Background to the Service CategoryPersonalised care represents a new relationship between people, professionals and the health and care system. It shifts power and decision making to give people a voice, to be heard, to be connected to each other and their communities. The provision of social prescribing software, related solutions and services that help to deliver NHS Long Term Plan commitments, enable the NHS to provide the highest possible quality of safe and appropriately directed services at national, regional, local system, organisational and individual site levels. The Comprehensive Model for Personalised Care has been co-produced with people with lived experience and a wide range of stakeholders and brings together six evidence-based and inter-linked components, each of which is defined by a standard, replicable delivery model.  One of the components is Social prescribing and community-based support. Social Prescribing Digital Systems & Services The social prescribing digital solutions marketplace is an emerging one, with considerable variability in system functionality and interoperability. In order to support more effective social prescribing by practitioners and improved client access to those services, the NHS England Personalised Care Group’s “Digital Vision for Social Prescribing” has prioritised the identification of a core set of requirements for social prescribing digital solutions.This new HSSF Framework Service Line will enable health, local government and voluntary sector buyers to select and purchase digital solutions that will have been accredited as meeting a minimum set of core capabilities and compliance with national standards.Bidder EventNHS England Personal Care Group intend to hold a supplier webinar-based briefing event in support of this opportunity. Further information about the time and format of the event and how to register if you wish to attend will be issued via the Atamis portal.