Published date: 21 July 2022
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Contract summary
Industry
Education and training services - 80000000
Location of contract
LS1 4PL
Value of contract
£12,296,875
Procurement reference
CF-0984400D0O000000rwimUAA1
Published date
21 July 2022
Closing date
30 September 2022
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
14 November 2022
Contract end date
13 November 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
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Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Health Education England (HEE) is seeking to commission IAPT Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) education across the Midlands region.
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme began in 2008 and has transformed treatment of adult anxiety disorders and depression in England. Over 900,000 people now access IAPT services each year, and the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health committed to expanding services further, alongside improving quality. It remains an integral part of The NHS Long Term Plan.
IAPT services provide evidence-based treatments for people with anxiety and depression and are characterised by three things:
1. Evidenced based psychological therapies: with the therapy delivered by fully trained and accredited practitioners, matched to the mental health problem and its intensity and duration designed to optimize outcomes. From April 2018 all clinical commissioning groups are required to offer IAPT services integrated with physical healthcare pathways.
2. Routine outcome monitoring: so that the person having therapy and the clinician offering it have up-to-date information on an individual's progress. This supports the development of a positive and shared approach to the goals of therapy and as this data is anonymized and published this promotes transparency in service performance encouraging improvement.
3. Regular and outcomes focused supervision, so practitioners are supported to continuously improve and deliver high quality care.
The priorities for service development are:
• Expanding services so that at least 1.5m adults access care each year by 2020/21. This means that IAPT services nationally will move from seeing around 15% of all people with anxiety and depression each year to 25%, and all areas will have more IAPT services.
• Focusing on people with long term conditions. Two thirds of people with a common mental health problem also have a long-term physical health problem, greatly increasing the cost of their care by an average of 45% more than those without a mental health problem. By integrating IAPT services with physical health services the NHS can provide better support to this group of people and achieve better outcomes.
• Supporting people to find or stay in work. Good work contributes to good mental health, and IAPT services can better contribute to improved employment outcomes.
• Improving quality and people's experience of services. Improving the numbers of people who recover, reducing geographic variation between services, and reducing inequalities in access and outcomes for particular population groups are all important aspects of the development of IAPT services.
Further details and the tender documents can be downloaded from the following link:
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
About the buyer
Contact name
Mark Gilbert
Address
Blenheim House, Duncombe St
Leeds
LS1 4PL
GB
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