Published date: 10 May 2017

Last edited date: 10 May 2017

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Approach to market date: 30 June 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Guidance and counselling services - 85312300

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£19,000,000

Procurement reference

ACE-0264-2016-Luton (Market Engagement)

Published date

10 May 2017

Approach to market date

30 June 2017

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NHS Luton Clinical Commissioning Group and Luton Council are jointly commissioning an integrated health and wellbeing service that will work with our communities to proactively deliver a preventative approach that emphasises the whole person and which works to achieve the optimum levels of physical, mental, social and emotional health. The Luton wellbeing service will have one lead (Prime) provider who may work with local partner organisations under a single branding, promoting 'one-service', regardless of whether different organisations are delivering components of the service.

The Luton Wellbeing service will be an integral part of Primary Care Home which is our Luton clinical model that enables the public to access wellbeing support in their locality. The new model will signal a move to a wellness model, providing support to people to lead a healthier lifestyle by tackling multiple lifestyle and mental wellbeing factors leading to pro-active population health management that puts the needs of the person at the centre of the service.

It is expected that the service will align to GP cluster populations to achieve the following outcomes :

• Improved quality of life for all people and contribute to reducing premature mortality; suicides, cancer, complications associated with diabetes, chronic heart and respiratory diseases

• Promote positive health that can empower individuals, enabling them to maintain and improve their own physical and mental wellbeing

• Reduce inequalities in health through a focus on groups with the greatest health need, such as those with long term conditions ensuring that the service support improved physical and mental wellbeing

• Support primary care services as a specialist support for health and wellbeing, Reducing stigma associated with health conditions by assessing and responding to individuals needs holistically with a greater focus on prevention, and early intervention, for example, fewer people experiencing a mental health crisis, harder to reach communities accessing services

• Increase patient choice by linking patients up to non medical service in the community, ensuring social prescription principles underpin the services delivered and building on community assets that can address psychosocial factors.

• Contributing to reduced demand on secondary care services through widening access to services which extend from targeted programmes, promotional campaigns, education and self management to rapid access into services when needed

• Responding to increased need through a step up and referral to secondary care,

• Ensuring appropriate support is in place as part of a step down from secondary care back to recovery, greater independence, social inclusion and resilience.

Luton CCG and Council is looking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced provider(s) who can demonstrate an in depth understanding of the requirements.

More information

Spend profile

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Financial year Budget
2018/2019 £4,000,000

Attachments

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The range of wellbeing services included within the scope of the procurement will be:
• Primary Care Mental Health Assessment and Liaison Service
• Talking Therapies - Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
• Live Well Luton healthy lifestyle services - Weight Management (all ages), Healthy Living, Exercise Referral on referral - Physical activity
• Smoking Cessation Services and Tobacco control including prevention in schools
• Social Prescription
• Community Health checks

While the service will cover a full life course for healthy lifestyles, and will support, physical, social emotional and mental health prevention, alongside resilience for families and children, working with existing services to achieve this, the majority of the scope will initially relate to adults 16+ with future scope to include greater focus on children's mental wellbeing. It is expected that the mobilisation of the service will be over a period of 2 years. Phase One will include all IAPT Services and Healthy Living Services, Social Prescriptions and Smoking Cessation services. Phase Two will be the development of the Primary Care Mental Health Assessment and Liaison Service. Phase Three will relate to further agreed Children's Wellbeing services.

The duration of the contract is likely to be 4 years with an option to extend for a further 24 months. It is intended that the service will commence with Phase 1 in April 2018 and Phase 2 following in April 2019. Phase 3 will be open and confirmed at a later stage.

The Value of the contract will be approximately £4.0million in Year One taking into account Phase 1 Services and will increase to approximately £5.0million in Year Two, taking into account Phase 2 Services. These indicative figures do not include any agreed increases for meeting national IAPT standards as set out in the NHS 5 Year Forward View. These would be subject to on going negotiation and performance.

To support the procurement process a Market Engagement Event will be held on the 1st June 2017 at YOUTHSCAPE LUTON - 7 BUTE ROAD, LUTON 9.30am to 2.00pm.

The purpose of this pre-procurement market engagement process is for Luton CCG and Council to:
• Engage with innovative prospective provider organisations who see the opportunities to make a difference to the lives of people in Luton, and as commissioners to work with them.
• For commissioners and prospective providers, at an early stage, develop ideas that can make this the best service offer to our community; identify areas of innovation and new thinking and benefit from examples of good practice that we can add to our service specification.
• Inform Providers of the proposed procurement process and timetable.

Prospective providers are invited to express an interest in attending the event by emailing the attached form to: wellbeing.projectgroup@nhs.net.

About the buyer

Contact name

Samuel Naxton

Address

289 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7HZ
England

Email

samuel.naxton@attain.co.uk

Website

www.attain.co.uk