Integrated Community Musculoskeletal and Pain Service

Over the next 3 years (with possible two years extension) our vision is to provide a safe, patient-centred, cost-effective and integrated service that meets the needs of the local population affected by MSK and pain conditions. We need to improve patient care and to manage growing care needs within the current service.

This initiative aims to: • Improve GP Education and training around assessment and treatment of MSK and Chronic Pain Conditions • Improve Patient Education and increase self-management tools around MSK and Chronic Pain Conditions • Integrate MSK and Pain Services so patient care is better coordinated and managed throughout the patient journey • Expand and integrate community options to support treatment of MSK and Chronic Pain conditions, including physical and psychological lifestyle interventions

Encourage and support practices to reduce variation and improve the quality of GP referrals to secondary care Develop stronger links between primary and secondary care

The integrated MSK and Pain service will need to help support our planned care strategy to ensure appropriate care is given, often keeping treatment out of hospital and closer to home, so we will need to significantly increase the capacity of the community options component by taking a greater focus on physiotherapy, a single referral access point enabling multi-disciplinary teams to triage and treat as well as an emphasis on psychological/behavioural input to manage pain. This is a Prime Contract hence the prime contractor remains responsible to the commissioner for the delivery of the entire service, and for the co-ordination of its ‘supply chain’ (i.e. its sub-contractor providers) ensuring that it can and does deliver the entire service.

This contract baseline is for three years (£4,369,175- activity and outcome achieved) with two years possible contract extension- amounting to five years total contract life span (£7,334,120- activity and outcome achieved).

Additional information: Instructions for Applicants

All providers who wish to apply to this offer must do so by initially registering on Pro-Contract as suppliers, then registering your interest in the Tower Hamlets Integrated Community Musculoskeletal and Pain Service via: www.supplying2nhs.com (also known as Pro-contract) in order to access the Open Tender documents and online evaluation questionnaire issued on Pro-Contract. Following the registration of interest, bidders will receive an email notification from Pro-Contract allowing them access to the all the relevant documentation.

If you are already registered as a supplier on Pro-contract, you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password to log into Pro-contract in order to register an interest and access the Tower Hamlets Integrated Community Musculoskeletal and Pain Service tender documents and online evaluation questionnaire issued for this Tower Hamlets Integrated Community Musculoskeletal and Pain Service . If you require any technical support on Pro-Contract, please email [email protected] or telephone 01670 597136.

Bidders must use Pro-contract discussion board for their clarifications and all other communications with NEL Commissioning Support or NHS Tower Hamlets CCG regarding this procurement.

Note: The deadline for completed responses is 12pm (Noon) Monday 7th September 2015.