Published date: 8 December 2017
Last edited date: 8 December 2017
Closed early engagement
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.
About the buyer
Address
Crawley Hospital, Lower Ground Floor
West Green Drive
Crawley
RH11 7DH
England
kevin.green@soeprocurement.nhs.uk
Website
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/ProjectManage/283
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Closing date: 12 January 2018