WMCPC Eating Disorder Day Hospital Services - Pre-Market Engagement

Tender description

The WMCPC intends to commission Eating Disorder day care provision for children and young people within the West Midlands (aged 13-18). The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide mental health services. The indicative services aims are to: • Support young people with a diagnosed Eating Disorder to receive timely and effective care in the least restrictive environment • Reduce inpatient admissions to Specialist Eating Disorder Units (and/or reduce lengths of stay for those already admitted) • Provide an alternative, sustainable model to inpatient care as described within NHSE’s draft commissioning guidance for children and young people’s intensive mental health services. • Provide specialist eating disorder interventions on an outpatient basis • Be NICE Guideline (NG69) compliant • Provide a treatment option for the young person where there may be reluctance for inpatient admission and/or they require a more structured treatment approach to interventions than can be achieved within a current community setting. The proposed service model should cover the following minimum requirements (these may be subject to amendment due to concurrent development work) • Service model should focus on highly structured programme of day care provision, with range of evidence based therapeutic treatment approaches, supplemented with educational support to maintain a structured environment for the young person • Interventions should be tailored to meet young person’s needs at time of assessment as well as support to family/carer. • Service should be operational seven days per week 8am-8pm. • Service should be committed to principles of least restrictive practice • Service should have capacity to provide day service places up to 8 young people at any one time