Published date: 2 December 2016
Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.
Contract summary
Industry
Health and social work services - 85000000
Location of contract
North West, East of England, South East, South West
Value of contract
£40,000,000
Procurement reference
SCW/NHSE/00000303/2016
Published date
2 December 2016
Closing date
12 January 2016
Contract start date
1 April 2017
Contract end date
31 March 2022
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
NHS South Central & West Commissioning Support Unit wishes to identify on behalf of NHS England Specialised Commissioning provider(s) for 4 additional 8 bedded Perinatal Inpatient Units (also known as Mother and Baby Units) and is looking for applications for providers for the following areas:
Lot 1 North West (Cumbria and Lancashire)
Lot 2 South West (Cornwall, Devon and Somerset)
Lot 3 East Anglia (Norfolk and Suffolk and Cambridgeshire)
Lot 4 South East Coast
Bidders may bid for one or more lots
Women who require specialist treatment for mental health problems in the perinatal period need different facilities and service response from those provided by general adult mental health services.
The objectives of the service are:
- To ensure that women and their families have timely access to the right level of recovery focused care.
- If admission is required, to ensure that this will be to a Specialised In-Patient Mother and Baby Unit without delay so that no woman is unnecessarily separated from her baby.
- To safely and effectively meet the special needs and requirements, both emotional and physical, of mothers and infants.
- To provide specialist medical, nursing, psychological and statutory social care for mother and infant.
- To provide supervision, support, assistance and guidance in the care (both physical and emotional) of the infant whilst the mother is ill.
- To respond in a timely manner to emergency requests for assessment and advice.
- To ensure the integration in a seamless fashion of all components of care through access to discharge from the Service.
- To achieve the earliest resolution of the maternal mental illness whilst promoting the care and developing relationship with the infant.
- To assess and proactively manage high risk women with a prior history of serious mental illness to prevent avoidable recurrences in pregnancy and the postpartum period.
- To ensure that women, partners/significant others and families are able to make informed decisions about care and treatment, where they are able, including through provision of appropriate information and signposting to other relevant support
Further information can be obtained at:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home
About the buyer
Contact name
Lisa Chivers
Address
South Plaza
Bristol
BS1 3NX
England
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