Bromley CCG is looking to procure an IAPT service aimed at maximising the opportunities for people with common mental health problems to access talking therapies sooner rather than later. The service will play a pivotal role in the CCG plans to ensure that parity of esteem is taken seriously and mental health is given the same priority as physical health.

Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) believe that people experiencing common mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, have the right to access high-quality psychological therapies to support their recovery.

Bromley CCG is looking to procure an IAPT service aimed at maximising the opportunities for people with common mental health problems to access talking therapies sooner rather than later. The service will play a pivotal role in the CCG plans to ensure that parity of esteem is taken seriously and mental health is given the same priority as physical health.

We know that physical health populations such as COPD, Stroke, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular all have 75 through to 95 plus % of those populations in treatment. Bromley CCG is committed to ensuring the target of 25 % of population of people with common mental health problems is achieved as a bare minimum by 2021.

Bromley CCG will therefore seek to commission an innovative, intuitive and flexible IAPT service that can ensure the people needing the service are assertively engaged and come into the service at the optimum time to achieve recovery outcomes of 50 % plus.

This will require meticulous planning, flawless management of the entire system and exemplary relationship management to achieve the many incremental improvements throughout the entire contract on each and every day of its delivery.

The main objective e of the procurement is to have a Prime (Lead) Provider that will then have responsibility for the delivery NICE approved interventions and sub-contracting of all elements of the service to ensure we have the right level of step 2 and step 3 low and high intensity therapies available and accessible to people in Bromley.