Reducing Health Inequalities Around Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness - SMI Champion - Calderdale Cares Partnership

Contract summary

Industry

• Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£64,000

Procurement reference

tender_350874/1207534

Published date

26 April 2023

Closing date

10 February 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

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Description

Reducing Health Inequalities around Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness programme.

The aim of this service is to support a reduction in health inequalities for people with SMI by increasing access to PHC and improving the quality of this experience. This one year, non-recurrent funding from NHS England will increase staffing capacity for targeted work across Calderdale by developing a leadership and training champion role that can consistently increase best practice across the PCN's.

This provision will work alongside existing staff, with a particular focus on Primary Care staff. The aim is to support and encourage practices to increase both access to and the quality of the physical health checks to reduce health inequalities for people with SMI. This increased support will encourage practices to use the available health information and co-designed resources, completion of Health Action Plans and to increase tests and interventions that reduce the risk of preventable health conditions.

High level objectives of the service are:
- To provide leadership and educational approaches to staff delivering the health checks and other practice staff, to increase the uptake and quality of SMI Health checks and Health Action Plans.
- To provide training for staff to support sustainable change around best practice in a consistent manner across the multidisciplinary teams in PCN's.
- To support consistent use of commissioned resources such as the co-designed practice resource pack, patient invitation letters and films to support best practice across Calderdale.
- To support the 21 GP practices in Calderdale and their patients registered with an SMI, to promote a personalised care approach including positive lifestyle changes.
- To support work with a range of multi-agency services such as VCSE and Mental health practitioners to promote integrated working to reduce health inequalities.

Specific service elements inc but not limited to:
- To provide leadership and training around developing consistent best practice
- To provide a high level of communication and multidisciplinary working
- To have knowledge and experience of working in primary care
- To use available clinical system data to identify and target effective strategies for using best practice for people with SMI in PCNs and GP surgeries
- To work closely alongside existing practitioners to ensure a collaborative approach
- To support staff across PCN's delivering PHC both directly and indirectly

The NHS E funding of approx. 110K, is non recurrent and an approach is proposed that supports building best practice and resources that will continue in the PCN's after the role has ended. Due to the specialist nature of this work, this would not be suitable for agency staff.

Severe mental illness (SMI) and physical health inequalities: briefing - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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More information

Links

• https://nhsleedsccg.app.jaggaer.com
• eProcurement portal

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Award information

Awarded date

11 April 2023

Contract start date

11 April 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Total value of contract

£64,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Pennine GP Alliance

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About the buyer

Contact name

Wendy Stanley

Address

2nd Floor, Westgate House Westgate
Halifax
HX1 1PW
England

Email

wyicb-kirk.procurement@nhs.net