Published date: 26 September 2024

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


Closing: 4 September 2024, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Evaluation consultancy services - 79419000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

AHSN001-DN736345-50190401

Published date

26 September 2024

Closing date

4 September 2024

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

30 September 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Funding was received by Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC) in April 2021 to implement and lead on the national Child Parent Screening Programme. This was in order to support the ambition set out in the NHS Long Term Plan to improve the identification of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) to 25% by 2025.

Previously, HI NENC had embarked on a programme of work to search primary care records for those at risk of FH. Alone this was unlikely to achieve the NHS LTP ambition - the addition of a child-parent screening (CPS) programme was introduced to help increase identification of FH patients and their families.

FH, an autosomal dominant inherited disorder, is a common cause of ischaemic cardiovascular disease in young adult life. There are about 200,000 undiagnosed people with FH in the UK. Identifying affected individuals before the onset of disease is important so diet and lifestyle modifications can be made and medication initiated as appropriate.

As each affected child will have one affected parent, testing children provides a means of identifying and treating both child and parent together in a systematic manner.

This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the child parent screening service as well as the impact it has had. A mixed methods approach will be used drawing on a variety of techniques.

Award information

Awarded date

24 September 2024

Contract start date

30 September 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Total value of contract

£39,850

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Unity Insights Limited

Address

Amelia House, Crescent Road, Worthing, East Sussex, BN11 1RL, United Kingdom

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Suite A, 2nd Floor, 1 Citygate
Gallowgate
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 4WH
England

Telephone

+44 1916076350

Email

BusinessDevelopment@healthinnovationnenc.org.uk

Website

https://healthinnovationnenc.org.uk/