NHS Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group wish to invite prospective providers to express their interest for the provision of community based admission avoidance services.
This is a 12-month pilot contract, which is part of a wider piece of phased work and a step towards establishing the concept of care closer to home within Shropshire.
This invitation to tender provides information pertaining to the procurement for community based admission avoidance services. The purpose of this procurement is to secure a service provider to deliver community based admission avoidance services to the geographic locality of Shrewsbury.
This is a 12-month pilot contract, which is part of a wider piece of phased work and a step towards establishing the concept of care closer to home within Shropshire.
The locally defined outcomes of the service are:
— avoidance of unnecessary hospital admissions,
— patients to have a positive experience of care.
The overarching aims of intermediate care and this service are to:
— prevent avoidable hospital admissions and attendances through the provision of community-based care pathways allowing patients to be seamlessly step up or down levels of care/support,
— enable adults (aged 18+) to improve, maintain or manage changes in levels of independence, health and well-being, through a process of care, reablement or recuperation,
— a multi-disciplinary decision-making approach providing a person-centred service collaborated care between primary care, adult social care and voluntary sector,
— deliver services in partnership with health and social care, forming multidisciplinary integrated teams; including support staff, therapists, social workers, mental health, medical practitioners and nurses and the falls service,
— deliver timely, cost effective, efficient services that meet an individual’s needs; whether the lower to moderate level of preventative care and support, or the higher-level rapid response type support to individuals who are tipping into crisis.
The successful provider will be required to sign the NHS standard contract for the service and accept all terms and conditions.