Dual Diagnosis Service

Tender description

The Dual Diagnosis service is a community based service, which provides trauma informed psycho-social support for individuals 18+ living with co-occurring Mental Health difficulties, and Drug and Alcohol use. The service supports people who are not yet ready to access support from Mental Health, or Drug and Alcohol services (Such as NSFT, Turning Point, or Change, Grow, Live.), in order to prevent this cohort from falling through gaps in services and experiencing deterioration in their condition, which ultimately leads to greater use of urgent and emergency care. Key support objectives include improving an individual's Mental Health and Wellbeing, as well as supporting improvements in their Physical Health and quality of life, through holistic and personalised interventions that encourage increased engagement and ultimately stability in their recovery. The service promotes preparedness for referral to these services through Counselling, one-to-one, group, telephone and peer support. There is some support at home but this is very limited and by exception. Once the individual has achieved readiness, they are supported to be referred onward to either Mental Health, or Drug and Alcohol services. With a warm handover arrangement in place with Turning Point Drug and Alcohol service. Once individuals have been discharged from the caseload of the Dual Diagnosis service, drop in support is facilitated where they are able to attend a session within a set time every week without needing to make an appointment, to maintain stabilisation and promote well-being while they are waiting to commence support with Mental Health, or Drug and Alcohol services. Lot 1: To provide an accessible, community-based service for people with mental illness and co-occurring drug or alcohol misuse / dependence in Waveney; supporting people to reach a point which enables engagement with mental health and/or substance misuse / addiction services. The contract will run from March 1st 2026 to March 31st 2029 The total contract value is £409,647 (ex. VAT). : NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice due to an urgent circumstance which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.