Medicines Optimisation Academic Tender for AGEM

Arden & GEM CSU (AGCSU) is one of the largest Commissioning Support Units in the country. We currently serve over 60 CCGs, NHS England, provider trusts, STPs and local authorities. Our services are built on a strong foundation of experienced people who build great relationships, a commitment to NHS values and a thorough understanding of our commissioners and the challenges they face.

We provide real value to our customers by working at scale, creating the synergies and innovation that ultimately drives improved patient outcomes and makes commissioning resources work harder. Our cornerstones are quality, value, innovation and complete customer focus. Drawing from our extensive experience, our services bring local knowledge and relationships whilst offering the benefits of operating at scale and sharing best practice.

We offer a comprehensive commissioning support service covering the full scope of healthcare provision. Our structure and dynamic mode of operation allows us to bring together expertise from across the organisation to create multidisciplinary teams and develop tailored integrated solutions that meet the exact needs of our clients. AGCSU currently delivers a Medicines Optimisation service for its customer base across Coventry, Rugby and Warwickshire, Norfolk and Waveney and the West Midlands, offering differing levels of service provision in line with local Service Level Agreements. Medicines Optimisation Services include:

• Primary Care e.g. switching drugs, clinically reviewing patients, deprescribing, prescribing audits • Secondary Care e.g. Commissioning of tariff excluded drugs, invoice validation, prior approval systems, clinical pathway design • Care Homes e.g. waste reduction, polypharmacy deprescribing, reducing medication harms and improving patient outcomes, • Enhanced High Cost drug support e.g. in-reach support in hospitals • Controlled Drugs e.g. supporting regional CDAO enact their duties AGCSU is committed to providing a value for money Medicines Optimisation service to our customers. It is recognised that savings arising from clinical interventions and subsequent reductions in hospital admissions, are often not quantified in a reliable way. Therefore the Medicines Optimisation team wish to develop a way of calculating savings from interventions made.

We are now seeking to procure an academic provider to work with the Medicines Optimisation Team to develop a scoring Medicines Optimisation Intervention accredited costing tool.

Additional information: HOW TO APPLY:

How to Express Interest in this Tender: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once). Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register. Accept the terms and conditions and click 'continue' Enter your correct business and user details Note the user-name you chose and click 'Save' when complete. You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure) 2. Express an Interest in the tender - Login to the portal with the user-name/password and Click the 'ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are ITTs open to any registered supplier) . Click on correct tender to access the content. Click the 'Express Interest' button at the top of the page. - This will move the ITT into your 'My ITTs page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) - You can now access any attachments by clicking 'Buyer Attachments' in the 'ITT/ Details' box

Please note that whilst within this advert we have included the RFP including the Service Specification and evaluation criteria you must respond via the Bravo e-procurement portal www.ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk.