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The NHS Parliamentary Awards is an awards programme run by NHS England designed to help health and care organisations to engage with their local MPs, celebrate the work they do, and build or strengthen ongoing relationships. This programme has run successfully for the last five years with the support of an external partner who have delivered logistical, technical and commercial expertise that we are unable to provide in house. The objectives of the NHS Parliamentary Awards are to: • Encourage MPs to identify and highlight examples of system working and integration across the health and care landscape • Improve NHS and Healthcare staff morale by recognising and celebrating their achievement publicly, with best practice being shared as appropriate • Inform MPs about the positive progress we are making across the country in delivering the NHS Long Term Plan priority areas • Enlist the local media reach of MPs in communicating the aims of the NHS Long Term plan to a wider audience. We would like to run this programme again in 2023 and 2024 as we received overwhelming support and great feedback from stakeholders, MPs, NHS organisations and senior NHS England executives as well as from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. It is worth noting that the 2023 edition of the awards will be part of how the NHS marks its 75th birthday. NHS England is accountable, through its Board, to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for delivery of the annual mandate. The mandate sets the strategic direction for NHS England and helps ensure the NHS is accountable to Parliament and the public. Sponsorship It is an essential requirement that this programme must be delivered on a cost neutral basis for NHS England. Therefore, the events partner should have access to a sales team with the necessary skills and experience and an understanding of the health and care landscape to successfully pitch and secure appropriate sponsorship for 10 different award categories and a main sponsor. The Parliamentary Awards requires the support of an events team that are used to working in Parliament and with Parliamentarians to identify and book an appropriate venue for the launch and ceremony in or near the Palace of Westminster. The event partner will be required to produce a clear service level agreement and contract that set out the expectations and deliverables associated with the sponsorship that are agreed with NHS England prior to being agreed Further Details on this opportunity can be found in the attached document "NHSE Parliament Awards 202324 Requirements" Interested suppliers should register on the NHS England e-procurement system here: https://health-family.force.com/login • Once logged in click 'Find Opportunities' and search for "C97704 NHSE Parliament Awards" • Click 'Register Interest' • Once you have registered your interest you will be able to view the Requirements.

The NHS Parliamentary Awards is an awards programme run by NHS England designed to help health and care organisations to engage with their local MPs, celebrate the work they do, and build or strengthen ongoing relationships. This programme has run successfully for the last five years with the support of an external partner who have delivered logistical, technical and commercial expertise that we are unable to provide in house. The objectives of the NHS Parliamentary Awards are to: • Encourage MPs to identify and highlight examples of system working and integration across the health and care landscape • Improve NHS and Healthcare staff morale by recognising and celebrating their achievement publicly, with best practice being shared as appropriate • Inform MPs about the positive progress we are making across the country in delivering the NHS Long Term Plan priority areas • Enlist the local media reach of MPs in communicating the aims of the NHS Long Term plan to a wider audience. We would like to run this programme again in 2023 and 2024 as we received overwhelming support and great feedback from stakeholders, MPs, NHS organisations and senior NHS England executives as well as from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. It is worth noting that the 2023 edition of the awards will be part of how the NHS marks its 75th birthday. NHS England is accountable, through its Board, to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for delivery of the annual mandate. The mandate sets the strategic direction for NHS England and helps ensure the NHS is accountable to Parliament and the public. Sponsorship It is an essential requirement that this programme must be delivered on a cost neutral basis for NHS England. Therefore, the events partner should have access to a sales team with the necessary skills and experience and an understanding of the health and care landscape to successfully pitch and secure appropriate sponsorship for 10 different award categories and a main sponsor. The Parliamentary Awards requires the support of an events team that are used to working in Parliament and with Parliamentarians to identify and book an appropriate venue for the launch and ceremony in or near the Palace of Westminster. The event partner will be required to produce a clear service level agreement and contract that set out the expectations and deliverables associated with the sponsorship that are agreed with NHS England prior to being agreed Further Details on this opportunity can be found in the attached document "NHSE Parliament Awards 202324 Requirements" Interested suppliers should register on the NHS England e-procurement system here: https://health-family.force.com/login • Once logged in click 'Find Opportunities' and search for "C97704 NHSE Parliament Awards" • Click 'Register Interest' • Once you have registered your interest you will be able to view the Requirements.

NHS England is to conduct market engagement to obtain input and feedback in preparation for a potential tender of a Breast Test and Training service. A Breast Test and Training service is required to support the role of the Screening Quality Assurance Service (SQAS) in ensuring compliance of all local screening programmes. The current Breast Test and Trace service is a web based, quality assurance system, utilising bespoke Software. It tests image readers, within the screening programme, in their individual skill in identifying appropriate signs of breast cancer from a preselected set of radiographic images. It is mandatory for all image readers in the NHSBCSP to take part twice a year. Participation in the scheme is mandatory within the national service specification due to the realisable benefits to programme professionals reporting breast images. It allows new image readers and those returning following an absence from work to assess their capability in reporting breast images (malignant, benign and normal). This gives reassurance that the reader is competent and also tests their ability to accurately report breast examinations. It also serves as a refresher course for existing image readers and allows access to radiological images of rare and unusual breast lesions which they would not normally be exposed to which can help reduce the incidence of false positive and false negative diagnoses.

NHS England is to conduct market engagement to obtain input and feedback in preparation for a potential tender of a Down's Syndrome Screening Quality Assurance Support Service (DQASS) The Down's Syndrome Screening Quality Assurance Support Service (DQASS) is in place to monitor and support the quality and effectiveness of the screening tests for Down's syndrome (T21), Edwards' syndrome (T18) and Patau's syndrome (T13) in England. The DQASS service supports the NHS Fetal Anomaly Programme by providing statistical services that delivers independent clinical audit data and feedback to screening laboratories and ultrasound practitioners to enable quality assurance and continuous quality improvement. The analysis undertaken by the service checks the baseline median values, risk algorithm parameter values and population measures, such as age adjusted follow-up rates. Through meta-analyses, DQASS provides information on effects of factors such as smoking that is used to improve screening performance. The analyses provided by DQASS is used by the Screening Quality Assurance Service (SQAS) to improve the screening programme through feedback on all aspects of the test to laboratories, ultrasound departments and commercial. DQASS provides independent audits of screening laboratory and ultrasound data in a standardised and statistically valid format. The service model includes statisticians who are experts in Down's, Edwards' and Patau's syndromes. For more detailed information about the DQASS, including reporting, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/downs-syndrome-screening-quality-assurance-support-service

NHS England is to conduct market engagement to obtain input and feedback in preparation for a potential tender of a AAA Patient Management System and Support Service. The aim of the service is to support the NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme (NHS AAA) to reduce AAA related mortality by providing a web-based system that supports local screening services via six main components: 1) Identification of Screening cohort via Subject Population Index (SSPI) - The purpose of this is to identify people eligible for screening, and to provide and maintain demographic data for all identified screening subjects. This provides AAA Screening with the eligible cohort and provides demographic updates from GPs through NHS England Live services. The cohort is supplied to each provider approximately five months prior to the start of the screening year to allow for clinical planning. 2) Management of administration, screening and referral - This supports the core functionality for the screening programme, as described in the background above: a) the collation of a screening cohort for each local screening programme b) administration of screening subject call and recall, c) management of the surveillance programme d) recording of the screening process and associated outcomes, e) management of referrals for those screened positive f) collation of audit and performance management data for the programme. g) Where men have asked to be permanently removed from the NHS AAA Screening Programme; recording the reason and removing contact details. 3) The data for the AAA Screening programme stored in a single national database, and each Local screening unit only has access to the patients for whom they are responsible. The boundaries of local screening programmes are defined by the list of GP practices to which they are responsible for offering screening. 4) Recording of AAA surgery and outcomes - measuring the effectiveness of the screening programme by collating data on AAA Screening outcomes (whether following a positive screen or not) and linking findings with the National Vascular Registry (NVR) to support the National Vascular Network. 5) Details of all AAA surgery performed by the vascular unit should be entered on to the NVR by the vascular surgeon using the man's NHS number and made available to the screening office though the IT systems (the NHS number must be entered to allow the records to be linked automatically). 6) Managed service desk support services

In October 2019 NHS England and NHS Improvement set up the National Quality Improvement Taskforce for children and young people's mental health, learning disability and autism inpatient services to respond to and act upon recommendations and improvement themes identified by a series of reports and reviews published in 2019, which showed current services are not always delivering high quality care. The challenges around these services are high-profile, complex and wide-ranging. The Taskforce has been established to bring together existing pieces of work, creating a coordinated approach, and to develop solutions to the quality issues that have already been identified. The Taskforce is specifically focused on improving current specialist children and young people's inpatient mental health, autism and learning disability services in England by making a rapid set of improvements in care. To progress this work, it is vital for the Taskforce to draw on the expertise of a range of stakeholders, including children and young people (CYP) and their families who must be at the heart of the programme. The overall aim of the Taskforce is to improve the quality and safety of inpatient services so they are delivered to the consistently high standard that CYP deserve - it is crucial that their voice is heard and that they are given an opportunity to shape, influence and input into the projects. Our aim is to co-produce and co-design the work wherever possible and appropriate and involve CYP as both partners and influencers across the Taskforce's work. We want to work collaboratively with third sector partners to help us reach CYP currently in inpatient care settings, as well as those who are recovering/have been discharged in the last couple of years, as it is crucial that a trauma-informed approach is taken and wraparound support for young people is provided as needed. Interested suppliers should register on the NHS England e-procurement system here: https://health-family.force.com/login • Once logged in click 'Find Opportunities' and search for "C97924 Engaging With CYP in MH, LD & A Inpatient Settings" • Click 'Register Interest' • Once you have registered your interest you will be able to view the Requirements and complete the Qualification Questionnaire