Published date: 8 December 2017

Last edited date: 8 December 2017

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 12 January 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Miscellaneous health services - 85140000

Location of contract

South East

Procurement reference

SOEPS/17/383

Published date

8 December 2017

Closing date

12 January 2018


Description

This is a market engagement exercise where the Commissioner seeks your views for this requirement and asks a number of set questions.

This is a process designed to help the Commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A further Tender advertisement will be issued at the appropriate time where required. Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions you may wish to offer at a later date. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can.

The aim of the service is to provide a telephone-based behavioral coaching service to support patients with long term conditions improve their ability to self-manage and help to reduce avoidable accident and emergency attendances and hospital admissions.

This will be achieved by offering advanced coaching and motivational interviewing techniques over the telephone. Patients can become more confident at managing those issues that have become a block to attaining and sustaining lifestyle changes that in turn improve health outcomes.

Aimed at people who:
o Are adults (aged 18+) who have:
o been newly diagnosed with a long-term condition
o or who have not engaged with self-managing their long term condition/making healthy behavioral changes

To obtain further information, please follow the link to the Request for Information document which includes a draft specification.
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/ProjectManage/283

Please complete your response and return via our InTend eTendering Portal reference SoEPS/17/383 using the correspondence functionality by Midday on Friday 12th January 2018

Thank you for your participation - Commissioners' appreciate your time and effort in completing this RFI, which will remain confidential apart from main/sub contractor information exchange opportunity (if used) at the end of the document.


More information

Links

  • Tender notice

About the buyer

Address

Crawley Hospital, Lower Ground Floor
West Green Drive
Crawley
RH11 7DH
England

Email

kevin.green@soeprocurement.nhs.uk

Website

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/ProjectManage/283