Published date: 30 March 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.


Closing: 3 May 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Administrative healthcare services - 75122000

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£837,500

Procurement reference

HQIP HCA 2000 Perinatal Mortality Review Tool

Published date

30 March 2016

Closing date

3 May 2016

Contract start date

1 July 2016

Contract end date

30 June 2019

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has been requested to commission a Perinatal Mortality Review Tool on behalf of the Department of Health in England, and the Scottish and Welsh
Governments.
The overarching aim of this programme is the development and maintenance of a web-based tool to implement standardised perinatal mortality reviews across NHS maternity and neonatal units in England, Scotland and Wales and provide training and on-going IT support for users.
The programme will comprise:
1. The development and maintenance of a web-based tool to facilitate the introduction of standardised perinatal
mortality reviews across NHS maternity and neonatal units in England, Scotland and Wales. This tool will help clinicians to review the circumstances and care leading up to and surrounding each stillbirth and neonatal deaths in a systematic way, identify any sub-optimal care factors and then based on responses to the questions in the data-set, provide a grading of care, creation of a local action plan and allow organisations to identify themes across multiple cases to facilitate organisational change to reduce risk
2. Training in use of the tool and on-going IT support for users
3. Annual analysis of UK and country-specific wide data and reporting on themes and trends.The contract for the programme will run for three years, with opportunities for the duration of the contract to be
re-assessed at the end of each year subject to the availability of funding and an assessment by the Independent Advisory Group on the quality of delivery of the programme

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About the buyer

Contact name

Judith Hughes

Address

45 MOORFIELDS
LONDON
EC2Y 9AE
England

Email

procurement2@hqip.org.uk