23.906 - Overnight Nursing Service - Brighton & Hove / RFI

Overnight Nursing Service Brighton and Hove 23.906/RFI NHS Sussex

Request for Information (RFI)

The Commissioner is seeking the views of Healthcare Providers in relation to the provision of an Overnight Nursing Service covering Brighton and Hove. The Commissioner is considering a contract period of 3 years with an option (of the commissioner) to extend for period of up to 2 further years (3+2), this remains subject to further review. The service will provide an Out Of Hours District Nursing (OOH DN) service to housebound people over the age of 18 years in Brighton and Hove during the hours of 20:00 and 08:00 to ensure continuity of care to patients outside of normal business hours. This will include a handover with the PCN Community Nursing Teams (PCN - CNT) day service. The OOH DN service aims to assist in the management of patients to prevent avoidable hospital admission, act as a first responder and support timely hospital discharge. The service will make scheduled and unscheduled visits to cover:

• Proactive management of patients with long term conditions over a 24-hour period • Management of palliative care patients at home, in conjunction with the Community Martlets Team. • Provision of intravenous therapy at home (where staff have been appropriately trained, competencies assured and equipment in place). • Acting as first responder to GP calls overnight (where appropriate and staff competencies assured). • Responding to calls from 111 or the professional support line (PSL) for admission avoidance or to support timely discharge.

This Request For Information (RFI) process is designed to help the Commissioner to form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A Tender advertisement may be issued at the appropriate time, if required, should the Commissioner consider that the optimum route to commission the service is through a procurement process.

Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.

Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number), to gain full access to the Request For Information (RFI) document, you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page.

If you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access to the documentation and to be able to submit your response through Atamis. Please complete your response and return via the Atamis eTendering Portal, reference: 23.906 - Overnight Nursing Service RFI by 5pm on 14th June 2023. Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your insight.