Published date: 11 December 2015

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: 28 January 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£1,000,000 to £1,500,000

Procurement reference

22385

Published date

11 December 2015

Closing date

28 January 2016

Contract start date

1 July 2016

Contract end date

30 June 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Overview

 HCCG is procuring a Community Chronic Pain Service as part of the CCG's Transformation Agenda and the NHS's Out of Hospital Agenda.
 A review of the secondary care service model for pain concluded that it is unsustainable, because increasing numbers of patients are being referred to secondary care.
 An extensive consultation was also conducted to understand patient experiences of using pain services. Patients generally had positive experiences once seen by a pain specialist. However, HCCC have designed the outcomes based service specification in order to address the following key points that arose during the consultation:

• Patients feeling despondent that GPs don't understand their condition.
• Patients feeling that GPs are not aware of alternatives to secondary care treatment other than physiotherapy, and that there is a lack of health literacy about chronic pain.
• Some patients have a long term reliance on pain medication that they know has side effects but they are not aware of alternative ways of managing their condition.
• Patients frustrated that they have to wait so long to be seen by a pain specialist.
• A reliance, in many cases, for several years on spinal injection therapy that they themselves know is not a cure but "only a short term fix" and never being discharged from the hospital.
• Having an expectation that the healthcare system will resolve their pain and waiting for this to happen before becoming activated to help themselves.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Ekkehard Kugler

Address

Chandlers Point
Halyard Court, 31 Broadway
Salford
M50 2UW
England

Email

ekkehard_kugler@nhs.net