Published date: 13 July 2016

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 12 August 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

LA1 1QD

Value of contract

£150,000

Procurement reference

project_17503

Published date

13 July 2016

Closing date

12 August 2016

Contract start date

12 September 2016

Contract end date

11 September 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The new care models programme, being implemented through the vanguards, aims to catalyse the widespread adoption of new models of care that improve the health and wellbeing of patients, the quality of care that patients receive, and the efficiency of the overall system. Evaluation of the vanguards is an essential component of achieving these goals and is a core part of the approach that has been developed by the central evaluation team at NHS England.
The overall aim of this study is to undertake a detailed process and impact evaluation of the Better Care Together Morecambe Bay PACs Vanguard . The study should be both formative and summative in its design. As such, it should be used to shape the delivery of the programme as it is delivered, as well as provide summative findings on the impact that the programme is having. The design of the evaluation must account for the local contextual factors with the interventions the vanguard is testing.
There are a set of common principles and a number of evaluation questions to ensure findings are useful both locally and nationally (see Local Evaluation Strategy Section 3):
• What is the context (e.g. history, culture, economic and social circumstances, relationships, health inequalities, local and national policies, national legislation) in each vanguard into which new care models have been implemented?
• What key changes have the vanguards made and who is being affected by them? How have these changes been implemented?
• What is the change in resource use and cost for the specific interventions that encompass the new care models programme locally? How are vanguards performing against their expectations and how can the care model be improved?
• What expected or unexpected impact is the vanguard having on patient outcomes and experience, the health of the local population and the way in which resources are used in the local health system e.g. equality? This should be compared against a counterfactual in which the vanguard interventions have not been delivered?
• Which components of the care model are really making a difference?
• What is causing the outcomes demonstrated in particular elements of the programme, systems, patients or staff?
• How will the attribution of outcomes within the vanguard be assessed?
• What are the 'active ingredients' of a care model? Which aspects, if replicated elsewhere, can be expected to give similar results and what contextual factors are prerequisites for success?
• What are the unintended costs and consequences (positive or negative) associated with the new models of care on the local health economy and beyond?
As well as providing value to the Better Care Together Morecambe Bay PACs Vanguard and its wider local health economy, the evaluation should generate an evidence base that will enable the central new care models team to answer key policy questions about the spread and replicability of the new care models

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Award information

Awarded date

6 September 2016

Contract start date

3 October 2016

Contract end date

30 September 2017

Total value of contract

£144,950

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

University of Cumbria

Address

Enterprise & Business Development
University of Cumbria
Bowerham Road
LANCASTER, LA1 3JD

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Paul Dowell

Address

University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Burton Road
Kendal
LA9 7RG
England

Telephone

01539716632

Email

paul.dowell@mbht.nhs.uk