The aim of the service is to provide personalised care, delegated by a registered nurse supported by wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and palliative care services as appropriate, responding to the need of the patient and family members.

The objectives and expected outcomes are:

— provide consistent high-quality end of life care to patients and family members, by staff that have received end of life care training,

— enable patients at end of life to be cared for in a nursing home if that is their preferred place of care until the end of their life,

— prevent avoidable admissions and readmissions to acute hospital care and to ensure good communication and a shared understanding of the patient’s needs and care amongst health care practitioners,

— enable rapid (same day) discharge from the acute hospitals for patients at the end of life,

— support integrated teams by providing rapidly accessible care to patients at the end of life for patients cared for in a community setting.

The commissioners wish to receive responses to the invitation to tender (ITT) from suitably qualified and experienced providers with the necessary capacity and capability (or a demonstrable ability to provide the necessary capacity and capability) to provide the range of services required.

The aim of the service is to provide personalised care, delegated by a Registered Nurse supported by wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and palliative care services as appropriate, responding to the need of the patient and family members.