NHS Devon has undertaken re-procurement of its acute contract with system partner University Hospital Plymouth Foundation Trust (UHP) using a Direct Award process A
NHS Devon has procured a contract for a falls management exercise programme for residents in North Devon age 55 and over who have been deemed to be at heightened risk for falls.
NHS Devon has procured this service for specialist advice and surgical intervention for patient who have varicose veins causing complications in line with Choice regulations under Direct Award Process B of the Provider Selection Regime.
NHS Devon Integrated Care Board (the Commissioner) commissioned a 2-year contract for a Clinical Decision Support tool add-on for SystmOne and EMIS Web.
The subscription to the Medicines Optimisation Service will provide a comprehensive set of resources to support the medicines optimisation cost improvement programmes and to further support the implementation of key medicines optimisation priorities for NHS Devon.
The Care Co-ordination Hub provides a senior level, multi-disciplinary, clinical consultation service, including the ability to prescribe, which assesses patients' needs and navigates them to the right service, first time. Referrals are received from both the South Western Ambulance Service Trust (SWAST) Stack of 999 calls and from Paramedics on scene, calling for advice and to explore alternatives pathways to the Emergency Department. This provides an opportunity for shared clinical assessment and decision making between the Hub and the referrer, with the potential for the call to be closed or referred onto existing services in the community if required. There is also an opportunity to link in with, or refer onto, the three Locality Spokes across Devon for patients who have more complex needs, or for an ambulance to be dispatched if required. The staffing model is made up of Advanced Care Practitioners and General Practitioners, all of whom are independent prescribers, working closely with SWAST Specialist Paramedics.
• Operating seven days a week 08.00 - 20.00 covering the whole of Devon.
• Contract £745k (including VAT) from 22 March 2024 - 30 September 2024
NHS Devon Integrated Care Board (ICB) sought to commission a Provision of Services for Out of Hours GP Support to Devon Community Hospitals - South and West Regions. The service will be provided to patients residing as in-patients in the Devon Community Hospitals - South and West Regions.
NHS Devon has commissioned a range of community mental health services from Devon Partnership NHS Trust. The parties are working together in developing the Devon Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity Provider Collaborative, which will include a number of the services included within this procurement.
They are the only capable providers of the range of services that they provide and as such in order to secure needs of patients, a Negotiated procedure without prior publication was followed and justified under Public Contracts Regulations 2015 32(2)(b)(ii)
Devon Partnership NHS Trust have been awarded a contract for the period 01/04/2023 - 31/03/2026 with a total value of £187,333,000.
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NHS Devon Integrated Care Board is seeking a provider who has the capability and capacity to deliver a digitalised Continuing Healthcare (CHC) end to end person management digital system, where information seamlessly flows between processes by connecting the entire lifecycle into one platform. The system needs to facilitate the services to deliver enhanced transformation across all spectrums of the service.
Devons CHC Service provides high quality, safe care to Devon's most vulnerable Adults and Children, and currently has a combined active caseload of around 3,000 individuals. The ICB is seeking an efficient and effective digital system to manage the caseload and the inherent complexities associated with the services. Devon's caseload, plus combined legacy data is circa 3000 records.
The new system is in the first instance to replace two existing systems. For Devon ICB this is a replacement for an off the shelf record system. For Torbay and South Devon, there is a locally developed bespoke system that requires replacement. It is intended the new replacement system will operate for both organisations.
One of the key requirements for a new system will be the need for it to be sufficiently flexible to support a wide range of services outside the traditional CHC / Funded Nursing Care (FNC) / Fast Track (FT) / Continuing Care (CC) agenda. Service wide transformation will be implemented across all areas including clinical, business, performance, finance and contracting and commissioning, enabling better integration between systems across Health and Social Care is also critical.
CHC is a unique service as it covers and links many elements of the health and social care system. Therefore, interoperability is of paramount importance, allowing for the CHC service and wider Health and Social Care teams to share and view records. This will support improved accessibility and visibility of data which in turn will enable more efficient and streamlined workflows for all teams and a better person experience.
The Commissioner has a maximum financial envelope available of £200,000 per annum, inclusive of VAT. The total maximum contract value for the 4-year Contract is £800,000 and (inclusive VAT). At the end of the initial contract term the Commissioner will have extension options of up to 3 years in total, made of 3 x12 month periods, which will be awarded at the commissioner's discretion, giving a maximum possible contract value of £1,400,000 inclusive of VAT over 7 years if the full contract term is fulfilled.
The new contract will commence the 2nd of February 2026.
This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of NHS Devon Integrated Care Board.