Community Unit with Nursing

Contract summary

Industry

• Miscellaneous health services - 85140000

Location of contract

S60

Value of contract

£2,882,880

Procurement reference

TRFT 03951 (FTS 2021/S 000-018042)

Published date

23 August 2022

Closing date

31 August 2021

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

18 November 2021

Contract end date

17 November 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The Authority is looking to work with a capable provider to supply a community unit with nursing to support individuals on a short-term basis who either cannot remain at home but do not require consultant led acute care or who are being discharged from acute care but are not yet able to return home. The supplier will work with health and social care providers to support discharge to assess, recovery, rehabilitation and reablement care plans to facilitate
independence and enable as many people to return home as is possible.Individual therapy programmes will be formulated with the individual to achieve the following objectives :-•
Return home at the earliest opportunity and/or;• Increase or maintain independence, choice and control and/or;• Instigate planned treatment and care to manage deterioration in health
and wellbeing.

The development of a new reablement and intermediate care offer is a priority within the Rotherham Health and Social Care Place Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan and, more recently, national discharge guidelines introduced in response to the Covid Pandemic, outline an
integrated 'discharge to assess' model based on 'Home First' principles. The aim is to develop community services to support more people to be discharged home directly from an acute setting or to remain at home during an exacerbation or acute incident. However, this is not always possible and there will be times when a person does not require consultant led care in an acute hospital, but cannot be safely cared for at home. There is therefore a need to provide community beds with nursing for short-term care. The required service will sit within the overarching Discharge to Assess Framework, supporting adults aged 18 years and over, providing step up and step down beds for those people whose needs cannot be met at home.


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More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Community Unit with Nursing

• Opportunity
• Published 1 August 2021

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Award information

Awarded date

11 November 2021

Contract start date

18 November 2021

Contract end date

17 November 2023

Total value of contract

£2,121,600

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Athorpe Health Care Limited

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About the buyer

Contact name

Sue Grundy

Address

Moorgate Road
ROTHERHAM
S602UD
England

Telephone

01709 427230

Email

susan.grundy@nhs.net