UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

The service delivers unscheduled dental care to the general public on weekends and bank holidays from Nash House, Ipswich and Saxon House, Bury St Edmunds. The agreement is based on sessions; 8am to 4pm Saturday, 8am to 4pm Sunday and 8am to 4pm each public Bank Holiday at each of the two sites. Service referrals are via NHS111.

Award of a contract extension to Swan Surgery, Bury St Edmunds to retain the APMS contract for Forest Surgery Brandon for a further year.

Intention is to commission a specialised bereavement counselling service that meets the needs of women or the birthing person and their partners, who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health distress because of pregnancy-related bereavement or baby loss. Access to the service will be provided via professional referral and self-referral. The service is accessible following a stillbirth, second trimester miscarriage, terminations for medical reasons, recurrent miscarriages, neonatal loss, birth trauma, pregnancy after loss, and early miscarriage (by professional referral only). A fixed number of counselling sessions will be provided either virtually or face-to-face based on parent choice.

This is a Contract Award Notice (CAN) being published by the Contracting Authority, NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB), to communicate a above threshold contract is compliantly awarded to the APMS provider for the Forest Surgery. This contract is for APMS Surgery between 1st April 2024 to 30th September 2024. The aggregate contract value is £660,172.00. A Voluntary ex ante transparency notice pertaining to this contract was published via Find A Tender service on 01st September 2023. Notice reference: 2023/S 000-025872

The NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (the Commissioners) are issuing this Contract Notice in connection with the competitive procurement of the Mental Health Support Teams North East Essex locality. The Commissioners are looking to establish contracts to cover the service, for a period 5 years and 3 months with the possibility of extending the term for a period 2 years.

This is a voluntary ex ante transparency notice and is intended to provide notice of NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board's (SNEE ICB) intention to award a 6-month contract extension from 01/04/2024 to 30/09/2024 for the provision of Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS).

This is a Contract Award Notice to communicate an intention to award by the Contracting Authority: NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB (hereinafter referred to as “the Authority”. The Authority intend to award a contract to Suffolk Primary Care for the provision of Primary Care Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) at Forest Surgery, Brandon. The contract term is 7 years (with the option to extend for a further 3 years), commencing 1st April 2025 and expiring on 31st March 2032, at a total aggregate Contract Value of £9,224,462.66 (£13,177,803.80 with extension). The Authority works closely with its system partners to improve the health and wellbeing of their local communities. Services can be commissioned at 'place' level or across the wider Integrated Care Board (ICB). This service will be commissioned across West Suffolk place. The contractual approach is the standard APMS contract with the aim to continue provision of medical services from the current premises.

The service is available to patients aged 18 and over with a registered GP in the SNEE area. This service sits within the stroke and neuro rehabilitation suite of services to help support those who are suffering the affects of a stroke. Comprehensive Support for Stroke Survivors and Carers: • Extends support from the acute stroke unit to one year post-stroke, or longer based on patient needs. • Provides a single point of contact for stroke survivors and carers to navigate the health and social care system effectively. • Includes independent needs assessments and ongoing support for patients and carers. Improved Health Outcomes: • Maximises rehabilitation potential for stroke survivors. • Promotes education to prevent stroke recurrence and manage complications like urinary tract infections, constipation, and falls. • Supports lifestyle changes to reduce risk factors such as smoking and obesity. Emotional and Social Support: • Enhances emotional recovery and confidence for stroke survivors. • Establishes long-term support groups for ongoing community engagement. Cost Efficiency for Healthcare System: • Reduced reliance on GP services by stroke survivors who receive proper support. • Research indicates cost pressures of £48K per year per patient if rehabilitation potential is not maximised. Data Collection for Future Service Improvement: • A fully functional outcomes framework monitors progress and collects cross-organisational data for future developments. Alignment with NHS Long Term Plan: • Supports higher intensity rehabilitation models, ensuring better outcomes for stroke survivors and promoting equity across healthcare systems.

In conjunction with Suffolk County Council the ICB are tendering for a Suffolk Dementia Support ServiceThe overall aim of the Suffolk Dementia Support Service is to empower people concerned with their memory, diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or dementia across the county of Suffolk (West and Ipswich and East but excluding Waveney), their carers, and wider family, to live as independently, safely, and well, for as long as possible within their communities.The service will be visible and community facing with a proactive focus on promoting early identification, providing a personalised response, and signposting people to appropriate support within their local neighbourhoods. The submission deadline is 12 noon on Friday 23rd August 2024.

SNEE ICB are commissioning Care Home placements on a spot purchase basis for patients that are assessed to qualify for Continuing Healthcare funding. This includes fast track and urgent placements.

The service aims to support the responsive and effective supply of essential medication for Palliative and End of Life Care (PEoLC) and the treatment of Clostridioides difficile (also known as Clostridium difficile, C. difficile or C. diff). This is a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhoea. The demand for palliative care treatments and the relevant antibiotics, vancomycin or fidaxomicin, may be urgent and/or unpredictable. The service will operate during all normal opening hours for the community pharmacy and/or any locally commissioned extended hours e.g., Public/Bank holiday rota. The pharmacy contractor(s) (provider) will stock minimum stock levels of a locally agreed list of drugs and will make a commitment to ensure those users of this service have prompt access to these medicines. The pharmacy will provide information and advice to the user, carer and clinician as required. Pharmacy teams should refer to the joint Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)/Marie Curie UK Quality Improvement (Daffodil) Standards for support in continual improvement of their palliative and end of life care arrangements. They may also refer to the specialist palliative care advice lines at the local hospices within SNEE. The pharmacy will maintain stocks of the specified list of medicines required to deliver this service and will dispense these in response to NHS prescriptions presented. The stock levels may be requested where there have been reports of failure to hold minimum stocks. The pharmacy will be expected to hold the minimum stock level unless there is evidence of drugs being dispensed and awaiting stock replenishment. The pharmacy will be expected to report stock levels on a quarterly basis and will receive remuneration for each report submitted. Providers should seek to maintain adequate stocks of medication in line with local demand and in anticipation of reduced wholesaler deliveries, e.g., weekends, bank holiday periods.

Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board is looking for a system partner to provide a Covid Medicines Delivery Unit (CMDU).

SNEE ICB are commissioning Care Home placements on a spot purchase basis for patients that are assessed to qualify for Continuing Healthcare funding. This includes fast track and urgent placements.

The ICB is seeking to appoint an existing provider of primary medical care services already located within a five-mile radius of the Bluebell Surgery premises within the SNEE ICB area for the patient list registered with Bluebell Surgery, Jack Andrews Drive, Highwoods, Colchester, Essex, CO4 9YN. The practice is currently managed under a caretaker arrangement, and the intention of the process is to allocate the existing site and list as an additional site to an existing GMS contract within a five-mile radius of the Bluebell Surgery premises within the SNEE ICB area. The existing GMS contract of the successful provider in this procurement will be varied to include the services to be provided at the Bluebell Surgery

SNEE ICB are commissioning Care Home placements on a spot purchase basis for patients that are assessed to qualify for Continuing Healthcare funding. This includes fast track and urgent placements.

The Universal Health Services contract comprises of Learning Disability/Behavioural therapies for 0-18 yrs; coordination assessments for Children in Care (CiC) for 0-25 yrs; Enuresis support for 5-19 yrs, including continence products.

The East and West Community Wellbeing and Crisis Hubs offer a safe space to get support for mental health, wellbeing and crisis, in the community. They provide warm welcome and supportive staff to offer help, advice, or a listening ear. Provision includes café-style food and drink to purchase; advice and information on local services and support; including mental health and wellbeing; the opportunity to meet other people with experience of mental; ill-health support - from a quick chat over a cup of tea to longer-term support social activities and groups; open access support; and evening mental health crisis support (on referral). The East and West Community Wellbeing and Crisis Hubs provide the following core services from bases in Kings Lynn and Gorleston, serving the population of West Norfolk and Great Yarmouth and Waveney: - Daytime Hub and Community Café/drop-in (10am to 5pm Monday to Sunday) The daytime hubs offer open access drop-in to the communal areas of the hub and the community café. Referrals are self-selecting, but recommendations from other professionals to use the daytime hub and word of mouth are also acceptable. In addition to extensive provider-led mental health and wellbeing provision, a wide range of partner organisations work with Hubs to enable provision and/or access, to an extensive range of VCSE and statutory support, helping to promote health and wellbeing, and address wider determinants of mental ill-health. Evening Crisis Hub (6pm to 10pm Monday to Sunday) The service will offer low-level UEC pathway intervention designed to support admission avoidance for lower severity cases, providing brief interventions for a few hours, and supporting onward access to a structured programme of support delivered by each Hub provider, or onward referral to additional mental health support, as appropriate. Intensive Support Programme (10am to 5pm Monday to Sunday) Available to people who have experienced a crisis and used the evening hub, and/or professionals who are concerned someone is at risk of experiencing a crisis episode.

The Dual Diagnosis service is a community based service, which provides trauma informed psycho-social support for individuals 18+ living with co-occurring Mental Health difficulties, and Drug and Alcohol use. The service supports people who are not yet ready to access support from Mental Health, or Drug and Alcohol services (Such as NSFT, Turning Point, or Change, Grow, Live.), in order to prevent this cohort from falling through gaps in services and experiencing deterioration in their condition, which ultimately leads to greater use of urgent and emergency care. Key support objectives include improving an individual's Mental Health and Wellbeing, as well as supporting improvements in their Physical Health and quality of life, through holistic and personalised interventions that encourage increased engagement and ultimately stability in their recovery. The service promotes preparedness for referral to these services through Counselling, one-to-one, group, telephone and peer support. There is some support at home but this is very limited and by exception. Once the individual has achieved readiness, they are supported to be referred onward to either Mental Health, or Drug and Alcohol services. With a warm handover arrangement in place with Turning Point Drug and Alcohol service. Once individuals have been discharged from the caseload of the Dual Diagnosis service, drop in support is facilitated where they are able to attend a session within a set time every week without needing to make an appointment, to maintain stabilisation and promote well-being while they are waiting to commence support with Mental Health, or Drug and Alcohol services.

The service provides specialist learning support assistants to children and young people ensuring that they can attend and receive education or receive support optimising rehabilitation to return to education at the earliest opportunity.