NQB Effective Safe Staffing Evidence Reviews
A Tender Notice
by NHS ENGLAND
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Services)
- Duration
- 4 month
- Value
- £95K
- Sector
- HEALTH
- Published
- 08 Dec 2025
- Delivery
- 01 Feb 2026 to 31 May 2026
- Deadline
- 12 Jan 2026 12:00
Related Terms
Location
1 buyer
- NHS England London
Description
NHS England has been commissioned by the National Quality Board (NQB) to oversee the development of a contemporary suite of improvement resources for safer staffing. The programme will update the existing improvement resources and will write brand new safe staffing resources via working groups chaired by strategic influencers and attended by subject matter experts. There are five focuses for this Safe Staffing programme, and they will be split into Lots. Lot 1: The Children & Young People's Critical Care Services Lot 2: The Community & District Nursing Services Lot 3: Operating Theatres Lot 4: Children & Young People's Community Services Lot 5: Neonatal Services
Lot Division
| 1 | The Children & Young People’s Critical Care Services
This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in Children and Young People’s Critical Care Services in NHS hospitals. The scope includes both intensive and high dependency care delivered within discrete locations such as Intensive Care Units (ICU), High Dependency Units (HDU) or combined/co-located units. The guidance will focus on critical care service provision at Level 3, though Level 2 will be considered as appropriate. |
| 2 | The Community & District Nursing Services
This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in NHS community services and will consider clinical establishment setting, approval and deployment from the team leader of the community service to the board of directors. Community health teams support people with complex health and care needs to live independently for as long as possible. Services are delivered in people’s homes, including care homes, but also in community hospitals, intermediate care facilities and clinics. |
| 3 | Operating Theatres
This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in Operating Theatres in NHS hospitals in England, including surgical perioperative and postoperative services. It will consider clinical establishment setting, approval and deployment from the multidisciplinary team across surgical and perioperative pathways. |
| 4 | Children & Young People’s Community Services
This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in NHS children and young people’s (CYP) community services and will consider clinical establishment setting, approval and deployment from the team leader of the community service to the board of directors. CYP Community health teams support young people with complex health and care needs to live independently for as long as possible. Scope includes services delivered in people’s homes, in community hospitals, intermediate care facilities and clinics. |
| 5 | Neonatal Services
This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in NHS neonatal services over the whole pathway of care for newborn babies, ranging from intensive care through to community outreach. Scope includes wherever neonates may also be cared for – i.e. in infant and children’s wards areas in specialist children’s hospitals or district general hospitals. |
CPV Codes
- 85100000 - Health services
Other Information
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Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05f08f
- FTS 080520-2025