Admission Prevention and Rapid Response Services - Mental Health

Location

East of England:

Description

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, working in partnership with the Norfolk and Waveney CCG, wish to expand the provision of Admission Prevention and Rapid Response services into a larger demographic area.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Admission Prevention Service (APS), commissioned to the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, delivers interventions to service users that prevent an admission to an acute mental health hospital. The APS works with service users identified by NSFT's Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) who are "highly likely" to need admission if support is not provided to help them stay well. Interventions support persons; in crisis, with emotional and practical support, medication prompts and observation, daily life skills and activities, with housing or budgeting, to develop social and community groups, benefit applications, establishment of banking facilities and accessing adult education. The service supports individuals in crisis from presentations of crisis from anxiety through to suicidal ideation, self-harm and personality disorder etc. The 1 hour Rapid Response service offers a county wide response and integrated offer to support other secondary services. The service supports East of England Ambulance Trusts and NSFT's Mental Health Joint Response Car (MHJRC) to prevent and avoid unnecessary conveyance to Accident and Emergency (A&E) and admission to acute mental health services. The service does this by offering assessment, investigation to a service user's needs and providing brief interventions to help de-escalate crisis and signpost to a wide range of community resources. As appropriate, the service supports EEAST ambulance and Police crews time on scene, aiding in a reduction of Section 136 and Police voluntary attendance at A&E. Additional information:

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Legal Justification

This contract modification is compliant with Regulation 72(Modification of contracts during their term) of the Public Contract Regulations; specifically section B: (b)for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor that have become necessary and were not included in the initial procurement, where a change of contractor- (i)cannot be made for economic or technical reasons such as requirements of interchangeability or interoperability with existing equipment, services or installations procured under the initial procurement, or (ii)would cause significant inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority, provided that any increase in price does not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract; The outlined criteria of this regulation are met by this contract modification, and the Trust will conduct a full re-procurement process for the outreach service before the end of the one-year contract term (should this pilot program be successful). The Trust will advertise the subsequent procurement process, via a PIN or Contract Notice, to enable suitably qualified and capable suppliers to register an interest in any future procurement opportunity.

Other Information

Working with the incumbent supplier, the Trust plan to expand the current services (Admission Prevention and Rapid Response) into other areas of the Norfolk and Waveney care sector. The contract with the supplier will be awarded for an initial one year term (until the end of March 2023), at which point (if the pilot is deemed a success), the Trust plan on conducting a procurement process to identify the Most Economically Advantageous service provider for a longer contract term. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. **