Published date: 15 July 2022

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: 29 July 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

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Location of contract

DE1 3QT

Value of contract

£0 to £50,000

Procurement reference

20220715173253-68205

Published date

15 July 2022

Closing date

29 July 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 September 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2023

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

Implementing Behavioural Science Nudge Techniques to address inequalities and Improve Cervical Screening Uptake. The project is to support Primary Care Networks in identifying specific patient cohorts who choose not to respond to invitations to take up cervical screening when invited, the reasoning behind the reluctance and implement interventions to improve the uptake.

The work initially would be with a smaller number of practices identified as having the lowest uptake across the footprint whilst also providing a suite of resources for any other practice or PCN within the Derbyshire footprint to access and utilise on identifying their population needs.

Initial work will be done by the external provider to identify where opportunities lie within low uptake cohorts to increase uptake e.g. areas of deprivation, diverse ethnicity, sexuality etc. enabling creation of specific KPIs as per the needs of the local population.

Joined Up Care Derbyshire would like to utilise behavioural science techniques to encourage uptake and specifically target populations of inequality. Within the delivery of the project support would be offered to GP practices to identify patient cohorts of low uptake and provide practice staff with training on how to deliver specific wording within their 2nd reminder letters, and SMS messages if offered, based on proven Behavioural Science approaches such as those known as 'nudges'. Staff will also learn how to incorporate this into opportunistic conversation and telephone conversations with patients.

There will be no changes whatsoever to the service provided to patients or the Cervical Screening Programme process, this project is aimed at increasing the uptake of screening in eligible patients within specific targeted patient cohorts to reduce inequalities in the community and increase early diagnosis of cervical cancer.

Our aim with this project is to consistently achieve over the national target of 80% uptake of the Cervical Screening

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About the buyer

Contact name

Karen Martin

Address

Cardinal Square, Nottingham Road
Derby
DE1 3QT
ENG

Telephone

+44 7766474123

Email

karen.martin31@nhs.net

Website

https://joinedupcarederbyshire.co.uk/derbyshire-integrated-care-board/