Solent NHS Trust Stoma Care Provision Light Touch Regime

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Solent NHS Trust, invite interested parties to tender for a contract to provide sponsorship for the continuation and future development of a Southampton based Stoma Service. The aim of the Stoma Care Service is to provide seamless care throughout the patients' pathway from pre-operative referral, inpatient stay and continued management within the community. This means that the service have structured their provision of care to support all aspects of the patient pathway, targeting the specific needs at each point and ensuring interventions are in the right place at the right time. The stoma care service will provide informal counselling, education, lifestyle advice, health promotion, diagnosis of stoma complications and treatment, appliance management including reviews and assessment of usage and support to patients who have or are about to have a stoma formed. Solent NHS Trusts Specialist Stoma Care Service is commissioned to provide a community-based service to patients within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (ICB). This includes patients within Southampton City primary care network's (formerly known as Southampton CCG) and within the Southwest Hampshire primary care network's including Eastleigh Southern Parishes, Romsey and North Baddesley, Coastal, New Forest, Totton and Waterside. The Stoma Care Service also holds a contractual agreement with University Southampton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) to support ongoing provision of a stoma care service to both adults and children admitted to the wards at UHS. The inpatient related activity the Stoma Care Service provides includes both elective and emergency surgery. The Stoma Care Service supports provision of this service model across all the UHS sites including Princess Anne Hospital and within the private sector at the Spire Hospital in Southampton. This procurement process will mirror that of the Open procedure as in compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) in respect of Health Care Services under the Light Touch Regime, Regulations 74 - 76 and the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice & Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013.

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