NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) are publishing this contract award notice on behalf of NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), NHS Greater Manchester ICB, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB and NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB who have awarded contracts for the provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) to cover Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria delivering:
- Planned Patient Transport - for routine outpatient appointments
- Unplanned Patient Transport - for discharges / short notice bookings, and
- Enhanced Priority Service Transport - for time critical transport for patients attending for haemodialysis or oncology treatments.
This contract award notice is for the direct award of contracts with the existing providers, 24 months from 1st April 2023 to the 31st March 2025. This is a modification to the VEAT notice reference 2023/S 000-010668 as the contract length now covers 2 years to 31st March 2025.
The current NEPTS contracts were originally procured by competitive tender. There was then a delay in the recommissioning of these services due to the COVID-19 pandemic however work is now underway to develop a North West strategic approach to patient transport being commissioned by the newly formed ICBs that will meet both local and national requirements. To allow the timescales to complete this work and re-procure the service an extension of 24 months is required with the existing providers.
A review of the North West specifications is required to ensure it meets the evolving needs of the ICBs. In addition the National Review of NEPTS produced its final report on patient eligibility criteria in May 2022. This has broadened the criteria under which patients are able to access NHS funded transport and has required additional work on the specifications. The National Review has produced, and continues to produce, additional guidance to be adopted which will impact the North West specifications.
The rationale for the 24-month extension with the existing provider is that it will maintain the continuity of service until such time as a new service can be commissioned that will meet local requirements and incorporate any new national requirements. The extension is only a temporary arrangement to allow the appropriate timescales to re-procure the service (which have previously been delayed due to the pandemic and therefore events that were unforeseeable to the commissioners).
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care BoardNorth WestWAC-189527
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) are publishing on behalf of NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) who have awarded a contract for the Fylde Coast area, for Integrated Urgent Care Services.<br/><br/>The original Voluntary Ex-Ante Competition Notice (Notice Number 2022/S 000-016548) was published for the previously known NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) (LEAD) and NHS Fylde & Wyre CCG.<br/><br/>The above-named ICB issued a direct award for a 19 month contract, from 1st September 2022 - 31st March 2024 for Integrated Urgent Care Services for the Fylde Coast area.<br/><br/>Please see below for the justification for the urgent need to directly award this contract in accordance with the regulatory conditions.<br/><br/>Fylde Coast Medical Services (FCMS) provide out of hospital urgent care services to the Fylde Coast under a five year contract which was due to expire on 31 August 2022. The lead commissioner of this contract was the previous NHS Blackpool CCG. The scope of the services provided include the Integrated Urgent Care Services, the Acute Visiting Service, the Care Co-ordination Service and specific services around wound care and deep vein thrombosis.<br/><br/>This notice is for a direct award of a contract to the existing provider, FCMS, from 1st September 2022 to 31st March 2024, with consideration being given to the ICBs' future direction of travel for this service. It is the intention of the commissioning organisation to undertake a review of the model of services needed going forward and undertake a full procurement.<br/><br/>The rationale for remaining with this provider for a further 19 months was so that there will be a continuation of service provision, with a provider who is currently providing a high quality and responsive service.
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care BoardNorth WestWAC-201056
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU has been working on behalf of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, to award a contract for an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Programme. <br/>Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence- based model of employment support. Supporting people with severe mental health difficulties to find and keep competitive employment. It involves intensive, individual support, a rapid job search followed by placement in paid employment, and time-unlimited in-work support for both the employee and the employer.<br/><br/>The Lancashire and South Cumbria IPS service currently offers support to any Lancashire and South Cumbria service users aged between 16 and 69 years of age, referred via Early Intervention in Psychosis or Community Mental Health Teams or service users within either of these services who choose to self-refer into the IPS service.<br/>The service operates within the 8 key principles of IPS and a fidelity review of the service is carried out by<br/>IPS Grow to ensure the quality of the service and demonstrates the commitment to continuous quality<br/>improvement.<br/>The contract will require the provider to work with the ICB to further expand the service to other mental<br/>health services available to individuals with a severe mental illness including primary care, increasing the<br/>number of individuals supported to secure employment inline with the NHS Long Term Plan requirements<br/>as stipulated in the service specification.<br/>The provider will demonstrate the increase in activity by provided regular reports to commissioners and<br/>demonstrating the number of service users becoming actively engaged in the service and number of<br/>service users starting paid employment as well as other standards required by the commissioners.
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care BoardNorth WestWAC-213337
The provision of a Non- Symptom Specific (NSS) urgent suspected cancer (USC) pathway in the Pennine Lancashire area (covering East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen).
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care BoardNorth WestWAC-550404
The provision of an independent Clinical Advisor and Expert by Experience for every Care (Education) and Treatment Review (CETR) required for people in a mental health or specialist hospital with a diagnosed learning disability and/or autism.
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care BoardNorth WestWAC-551072