SOL - Solihull Specialist Stop Smoking Service - Market Engagement Event and Questionnaire 2024

Tender description

This is not a call for competition.Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council are seeking to commission a specialist smoking cessation service for the borough in 2024/25. The purpose of the service is to actively reduce smoking rates across the borough and contribute to the national Smokefree 2030 objective.Procurement of the new service will be through an open competitive process (Provider Selection Regime). However, as this is a significantly different model to our existing provision, we want to allow adequate time and space for discussions with interested parties. This exercise is aiming to reach out to organisations who are interested in working with us to reduce the harms caused by smoking. As part of this exercise, we are inviting interested parties to complete and return the short questionnaire. This will be followed up by an online market engagement session on Monday 18th March at 1-2.30pm , which will provide an opportunity for more in-depth discussion. Lot 1: Utilising the Public Health Grant, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) commission community smoking cessation services within the portfolio of our prevention services offer to improve health. All health and social care services play a key role in identifying smokers and referring people to stop smoking services; to maximise referral opportunities. The current smoking services comprises of : -Trained practitioners delivering stop smoking interventions. -Bespoke smoking digital application -Several individual Primary Care and Community Pharmacies to provide nicotine replacement products. -Pharmacotherapy and a database directly commissioned by Public Health On 4 October 2023, the government published Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation. This included a programme of funding to support current smokers to quit smoking, with £70 million additional funding nationally per year for local stop smoking services and support. This increases existing funding through the public health grant for smoking cessation services. Local stop smoking services and support: guidance for local authorities - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .Please refer to market engagement , and future tender documents which will published with the contract notice.