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Funding was received by Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC) in April 2021 to implement and lead on the national Child Parent Screening Programme. This was in order to support the ambition set out in the NHS Long Term Plan to improve the identification of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) to 25% by 2025. Previously, HI NENC had embarked on a programme of work to search primary care records for those at risk of FH. Alone this was unlikely to achieve the NHS LTP ambition - the addition of a child-parent screening (CPS) programme was introduced to help increase identification of FH patients and their families. FH, an autosomal dominant inherited disorder, is a common cause of ischaemic cardiovascular disease in young adult life. There are about 200,000 undiagnosed people with FH in the UK. Identifying affected individuals before the onset of disease is important so diet and lifestyle modifications can be made and medication initiated as appropriate. As each affected child will have one affected parent, testing children provides a means of identifying and treating both child and parent together in a systematic manner. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the child parent screening service as well as the impact it has had. A mixed methods approach will be used drawing on a variety of techniques.

In July 2022 an amendment was made to then Health & Social Care Act that all regulated health and care providers must provide mandatory learning disability autism awareness training to their whole workforce that is appropriate to their role. A Code of Practice is yet to be published by the Government, but it is expected to say this training needs to be co-developed and co-delivered with a experts of lived experience of autism and learning disability. The national NHSE response has been the development of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training. This is a 2 tier programme and is to be delivered every 3 years. The North East North Cumbria has Boost as their learning academy which is a centralised offer across the NENC ICS workforce for people to access their training requirements. We expect Boost will hold all mandatory learning disability and autism awareness training that meets the requirements of the Health & Social Care Act and Code of Practice that is available across NENC. We are looking for a team to build onto the existing Learning Academy digital platform that meets the requirements outlines in the Standards and Service Specification within the Invitation to Quote document.

The Sub-National Secure Data Environment is a national programme managed by NHS England involving eleven regions across England. The initiative is a wide-ranging socio-technical and innovation programme aimed at improving access to, and the use of health data in research and development (R&D.) The North East and North Cumbria (NENC) region was confirmed as one of the 'Sub-national Secure Data Environment' (SNSDE) regions in December 2022, with the initial programme running until 31st March 2025. The programme has been running system engagement and public patient involvement (PPI) activities since January 2023 to a strategic plan. The major improvement programme provides an opportunity to create more effective, efficient and timely innovations, driving better health outcomes for the population. To drive this change we require a Digital Stakeholder Management System to streamline and record all stakeholder engagement, projects, communication, feedback, issues and enquires. The system will be required to provi

The overall problem to be addressed is how best to provide feasible services that meet the integrated physical, mental and social needs of people with persistent pain. This is particularly apt for the NENC region, which remains a national outlier for the use of strong analgesia and as such pain-related initiatives including public education and the reduction of opioid prescriptions are a high priority for our region. This issue is correlated with health inequalities and it would seem those communities with high deprivation scores are most likely receive prescriptions for persistent pain. We are keen to engage in deliberative consultation with the public in the region on these issues to provide a more inclusive and informed decision-making process through input from informed public opinion. We wish to do this by way of a Citizens' Jury to produce well-informed and balanced recommendations or decisions that can influence policy-making. Therefore, we are inviting tenders from qualified and experienced organizations to work with us in partnership to conduct the Citizens' Jury.

Innovation in digital technologies, greater use of data and technology-enabled transformation are ways to support the NHS in addressing the pressures it is currently facing. Many innovative solutions are coming onto the market all the time, all in different states of market readiness. In recent years, through the creation of the Accelerated Access Collaborative, the AI funding awards and other initiatives, including most recently the intention to re-licence the HINs, the NHS has developed the infrastructure needed to enable the NHS to adopt innovation more widely. However, this is a complex landscape, and we currently need a means of tracking innovations as they move along the innovation pathway, from demand signalling and horizon scanning to ideation and development, approval, adoption and spread. This means the NHS has an incomplete view of the innovations available to support a particular need and is frequently unsighted on the timescales within which innovations are likely to come to market. Aims Innovation pipeline data, plus outcome and impact data, is currently collected using different tools, stored differently, and has various definitions across partner organisations. This means that understanding the pipeline is complicated and needs to be improved. The Innovation, Research, Life Sciences and Transformation Strategy (IRLSS) group has ambitions to improve its horizon scanning, and market intelligence capability and to align different and disparate data sources better to enable data-driven decision-making. We aim to align these different datasets to create a combined view of selected data items. This new dataset would combine data from the Health Innovation Networks (HINs), the NHS Innovation Service, and other sources (including awards, such as the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA)), to provide information about innovations moving along the innovation pathway and their impact. For obvious reasons, we are not necessarily looking to create a single comprehensive data source from the current disparate sources. Still, we need to align our datasets pragmatically to give a more coherent view of the market in a particular area that can be easily accessed. The resulting data will be used to support horizon scanning and market intelligence, to identify technologies that offer additional benefits, and to recognise where there are barriers to development and where there are issues with progress along the pipeline which could influence policy. This information will help the NHS understand, prioritise, and prepare for incoming innovations.

The requirement is for the Supplier to provide a fully managed IT support service to enable Health Innovation Network NENC (referred to as 'HINENC') to deliver its core business services. The current support contract comes to an end on the 1st February 2025 and services approximately 80 users / devices during office hours Monday to Friday. Objectives The supplier will provide seamless transition of IT support from the current incumbent, ensuring that there is minimal disruption to HINENC business operations. Once the initial transfer is complete, the supplier will deliver HINENC with a fully managed IT support service focussing on the following: Improved Service Delivery: Assist HINENC to ensure timely and effective delivery of HINENC's core business services, facilitating IT-enabled improvements. Optimised Resource Management: Efficiently manage HINENC resources to reduce operational costs. Strong Compliance and Security: Adhere to all relevant regulations and standards, with industry-leading protection of the HINENC's IT configuration and information assets. Performance Metrics It is expected that the Supplier will report their own performance against a set of standards so that service delivery is regularly monitored and assessed. Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Work with clearly defined SLAs for response times, resolution times, and service availability, the Supplier must provide details of their proposed target levels. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Track metrics such as customer satisfaction, service uptime, etc. Regular Reporting: Provide HINENC with regular updates on performance against KPIs / SLAs to identify opportunities for improvement. Governance It is expected that the Supplier will implement documented arrangements to govern the following aspects of service delivery: Change Management: Ensure that any change is well planned and managed and that lessons are learnt. Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate risks associated with service delivery. Audit and Review: Perform regular audits and reviews to ensure that areas for improvement are continuously identified. Problem Management: Identify problems quickly and implement solutions. Minimum Standards Essential: Certification to Cyber Essentials Plus. Desirable: ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) certification. ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) certification.

We require a Research and/or Academic Organisation to gamify the NHS England Data Security and Protection Toolkit as an accessible training and education resource for senior managers in care homes. We initially require two ALPHA models with the possibility to develop an end product in the future. Cyber-attacks, especially ransomware attacks, are becoming increasingly more common and the scale and sophistication of these attacks is growing over the years. This is significantly increasing business risk across the health and care sector with some attacks demanding payments and posing a threat to patient safety. Due to various structural, financial and operational challenges, the digital maturity and resilience of social care organisations is variable. NHS England have developed the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) which is an online self-assessment tool for organisations to measure their performance against the National Data Guardian's 10 data security standards. NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have expressed that they would like these standards to be gamified with the aim to improve senior leaders' knowledge of cyber security and behaviourally change their prioritisation of cyber. The reduction of cyber risk is correlated with reducing pressures on the rest of the health and care system. This is due to the requirement, in some instances of relocating service users in event of a cyber-attack. In addition, it reduces the risk of care services closing due to commercial loss and or reputational damage. The gamification provides an accessible learning experience in a complex and stressful space. This will be achieved through engaging across the spectrum of learning types (visual, read/write, auditory and kinaesthetic learning with particular emphasis on the later).

We wish to procure services for the statutory audit of our financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 and for a minimum of the following two years, subject to our satisfaction of the work performed. Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria Limited requires a comprehensive and cost-effective External Audit Service that will assist the company in meeting its financial governance roles and responsibilities whilst maintaining the necessary level of professional independence

HI NENC is looking for one Supplier for the provision of the evaluations of the Healthier & Fairer, Asthma, and Epilepsy programmes of work, run in collaboration with the ICB/regional CHWN

Funding was received by Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC) in April 2021 to implement and lead on the national Child Parent Screening Programme. This was in order to support the ambition set out in the NHS Long Term Plan to improve the identification of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) to 25% by 2025. Previously, HI NENC had embarked on a programme of work to search primary care records for those at risk of FH. Alone this was unlikely to achieve the NHS LTP ambition - the addition of a child-parent screening (CPS) programme was introduced to help increase identification of FH patients and their families. FH, an autosomal dominant inherited disorder, is a common cause of ischaemic cardiovascular disease in young adult life. There are about 200,000 undiagnosed people with FH in the UK. Identifying affected individuals before the onset of disease is important so diet and lifestyle modifications can be made and medication initiated as appropriate. As each affected child will have one affected parent, testing children provides a means of identifying and treating both child and parent together in a systematic manner. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the child parent screening service as well as the impact it has had. A mixed methods approach will be used drawing on a variety of techniques.

The requirement is for the Supplier to provide a fully managed IT support service to enable Health Innovation Network NENC (referred to as 'HINENC') to deliver its core business services. The current support contract comes to an end on the 1st February 2025 and services approximately 80 users / devices during office hours Monday to Friday. Objectives The supplier will provide seamless transition of IT support from the current incumbent, ensuring that there is minimal disruption to HINENC business operations. Once the initial transfer is complete, the supplier will deliver HINENC with a fully managed IT support service focussing on the following: Improved Service Delivery: Assist HINENC to ensure timely and effective delivery of HINENC's core business services, facilitating IT-enabled improvements. Optimised Resource Management: Efficiently manage HINENC resources to reduce operational costs. Strong Compliance and Security: Adhere to all relevant regulations and standards, with industry-leading protection of the HINENC's IT configuration and information assets.

The Sub-National Secure Data Environment is a national programme managed by NHS England involving eleven regions across England. The initiative is a wide-ranging socio-technical and innovation programme aimed at improving access to, and the use of health data in research and development (R&D.) The North East and North Cumbria (NENC) region was confirmed as one of the 'Sub-national Secure Data Environment' (SNSDE) regions in December 2022, with the initial programme running until 31st March 2025.

Innovation pipeline data, plus outcome and impact data, is currently collected using different tools, stored differently, and has various definitions across partner organisations. This means that understanding the pipeline is complicated and needs to be improved. The Innovation, Research, Life Sciences and Transformation Strategy (IRLSS) group has ambitions to improve its horizon scanning and demand signalling (HS & DS) capability and to align different and disparate data sources better to enable data-driven decision-making. We are aiming to align these different datasets with a view to creating an innovation repository. The repository would combine data from the Health Innovation organisations (HI's), the NHS Innovation Service and other sources (including awards, such as the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA)) to provide intelligence about innovations moving along the innovation pathway and their impact. For obvious reasons, we are not necessarily looking to create a single data source from the current disparate sources. Still, we need to align our datasets pragmatically to give a more coherent view of the market in a particular area, accessed more easily. The resulting data views will be used to support HS & DS, to identify technologies that do not offer additional benefits, and recognise where there are barriers to development and where there are issues with progress along the pipeline which could influence policy. This information will also support the NHS in understanding, prioritising, and preparing for incoming innovations.

In July 2022 an amendment was made to then Health & Social Care Act that all regulated health and care providers must provide mandatory learning disability autism awareness training to their whole workforce that is appropriate to their role. A Code of Practice is yet to be published by the Government, but it is expected to say this training needs to be co-developed and co-delivered with a experts of lived experience of autism and learning disability. The national NHSE response has been the development of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training. This is a 2 tier programme and is to be delivered every 3 years. The North East North Cumbria has Boost as their learning academy which is a centralised offer across the NENC ICS workforce for people to access their training requirements. We expect Boost will hold all mandatory learning disability and autism awareness training that meets the requirements of the Health & Social Care Act and Code of Practice that is available across NENC. We are looking for a team to build onto the existing Learning Academy digital platform that meets the requirements outlines in the Standards and Service Specification within the Invitation to Quote document.

The Sub-National Secure Data Environment is a national programme managed by NHS England involving eleven regions across England. The initiative is a wide-ranging socio-technical and innovation programme aimed at improving access to, and the use of health data in research and development (R&D.) The North East and North Cumbria (NENC) region was confirmed as one of the ‘Sub-national Secure Data Environment’ (SNSDE) regions in December 2022, with the initial programme running until 31st March 2025. The programme has been running system engagement and public patient involvement (PPI) activities since January 2023 to a strategic plan. The major improvement programme provides an opportunity to create more effective, efficient and timely innovations, driving better health outcomes for the population. To drive this change we require a Digital Stakeholder Management System to streamline and record all stakeholder engagement, projects, communication, feedback, issues and enquires. The system will be required to provide detailed demographics and mapping tools alongside an overview of the recorded interactions which will enable and support the NENC SDE Programme team to build relationships and deliver better outcomes.

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