NHS Worcestershire CCGs CHC Fast Track End of Life-Designated Nursing Home Pilot Procurement

This notice is a call for competition under an open type Procedure requesting bids for the CHC Fast Track Funded End of Life Care-Designated Nursing Homes Pilot Procurement being developed by NHS South Worcestershire CCG, NHS Redditch & Bromsgrove CCG, and NHS Wyre Forest CCG ("the CCGs") The Worcestershire CCGs are currently reviewing their CHC Fast Track Funded End of Life Care in Nursing Homes and have made a decision to commission a Pilot for care with Designated Nursing Homes within each of the three CCG areas. The CCGs initial focus is to invite tenders from relevant providers in the market who have current experience of delivering End of Life Care in the community within a Nursing Home environment. Interested and capable providers must be able to provide services for patients registered with Worcestershire GP Practices within the relevant CCG area. The CCGs will run a transparent process, ensuring all bidders (where applicable) are given equal opportunity. The CHC Fast Track End of Life Designated Nursing Home service will deliver - High quality end of life care for patients that choose to end their life in a Nursing Home setting - Provide rapidly accessible care thus preventing delays with discharge from hospital. - Provide support to family members - Prevent avoidable admissions and readmissions to hospital All staff will be trained via an evidence based End of Life Care programme. The service will provide one primary function:

To deliver a personalized high quality service in the delivery of end of life care, responding to the needs of patients and family members. The contract term will be for an initial pilot of 12 months, with an option to extend for a further 12 months. The CCGs are looking to award a number of contracts to cover the 3 CCGs. The indicative number of new packages by locality per year are: SW=196, R&B=72 and WF=28. The aim is to award contracts per CCG lot as follows: - NHS Wyre Forest CCG - up to 2 contracts - NHS Redditch & Bromsgrove - up to 4 contracts - NHS South Worcestershire - up to 6 contracts The CCGs reserve the right to award in part or in whole. The CCGs reserve the right not to proceed with award. "Light Touch Regime" services: This service is classified as clinical which comes under the Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ("Regulations"). The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. As the CCGs are relevant bodies for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement. To register interest and download the ITT documentation you will need to follow these steps: To register on the portal, go to: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Follow instructions from there.