Greenwich Community Health Services for Children and Young People
Reference number: GRECCGCYP1
Estimated duration01/04/2015 - 31/03/2020
Estimated value£7,700,000 - £7,700,000
Location where the contract is to be carried out: Greenwich Royal borough Greenwich
Is this contract suitable for a voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations?
Yes
Name of the buying organisation: NHS Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group
Description of the contract
Description of the services Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (GCCG) are
looking for innovative ways of delivering key community services for children and young
people (birth-18 years) including elements of specialist care in response to children and
young people with complex needs and long term conditions. The service will provide coordinated care that contributes to a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) around the child
approach, working in collaboration with key stakeholders in primary care , acute
services, mental health services, families and individuals to manage their health needs
and develop high quality, seamless integrated care 24/7 365 days per year. The service
will encompass the following (but not limited to):
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Service. • Community Audiology (excluding
tertiary audiology)
• Community Paediatrics • Community Nursing including Continuing Care and End of
Life pathway;
• Dietetics
• Looked After Children
• Music Therapy
• Paediatric Occupational Therapy
• Paediatric Physiotherapy
• Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy
• Residential Respite/Short Breaks/Step Down and Outreach Services for Under 5's
• Special Schools Nursing (Specialist Schools)
• School Nursing (Mainstream Schools) – (Public Health/Royal Borough of Greenwich)
• **Additional services may be added to those stated above at a later stage in the
process following service reviews with other commissioning organisations
**GCCG works in collaboration with other commissioning organisations such as The
Royal Borough of Greenwich and NHS England. There are some services that are
currently under review which are not included in the above that may be subject to
change. The services referred to above will be provided as one seamless service with a
single point of access. We would welcome innovative service models including
collaborative provision of services, this would require one prime contractor
Greenwich
Clinical Commissioning Group is committed to meeting key national legislation and their
responsibilities set out in the Children and Families Act 2014 and the Health and Social
Care Act 2012. A strong joint commissioning partnership and children's commissioning
framework is in place with the Royal Borough of Greenwich in order to ensure joint
working across agencies, service and institutions. The service will be required to proactively work with GCCG and the Royal Borough of Greenwich to fully develop strong
integrated services across the borough that clearly demonstrate and meet the core
principles of the above guidance. The service will also be responsible for meeting their
specific duties outlined in the above legislation and will establish a robust process within
the service to promote, identify and review opportunities for integration and work closely
with GCCG to implement key service changes to better meet the needs of children,
young people and families in Greenwich The service will demonstrate and meet the key
principles set out in the Greenwich Children and Young People's Plan providing high
quality health outcomes:
RESILIENCE We want all children and young people to engage successfully in
education, develop skills for employment, and choose healthy lifestyles. These strong
protective factors will ensure children and families to have resilience to cope with any
problems they encounter.
PREVENTION: We know we will have more chance of helping children and families if
we identify their problems swiftly and intervene early to support them to regain their
resilience. We want our services to be skilled in identifying families' problems as they
emerge, and break the cycles that make them become entrenched.
PROTECTION: For some children and families we cannot prevent problems escalating
and presenting much greater risks to children's well-being. Taking swift, decisive action
will be important to prevent significant and lasting damage to these children's welfare
and life chances. It will also maximise our chances of restoring their resilience, enabling
them to lead successful lives.
The key service outcomes we are seeking (but are not limited to) are for providers to: •
Improve the resilience, health and well-being of children and young people including
those with specialist or complex needs and/or long term conditions. • Focus on
prevention and early intervention by offering the right care at the right time and making
every contact count for children and young people and their families. • Drive and
implement the multi-disciplinary team around the child approach for every child
throughout the whole service, to best meet their health needs and improve health
outcomes. • Engage, consult and reflect children and young people and families
experiences in the design and on-going delivery of services putting designing the service
around the needs of the patient. • Actively collaborate, drive and implement the
integration agenda with key stakeholders ensuring children and young people receive
the right care at the right time making every contact count by developing a seamless
24/7, 356 days per year service. • Effective, timely, inclusive transition planning for
children and young people transitioning to adult services. • Safely manage the health
and well-being of all children and young people, protecting vulnerable children and
young people and safeguarding against harm. • Reduce hospital admissions and lengths
of stay by preventing the need for admissions and focussing on providing care closer to
home or within the home. The service will not provide the following; • Assessments for
children/young people with no nursing needs i.e. they require pure social care
intervention. • Those requiring CAMHs other than services for ADHD and eating
disorders which do not require residential admission; and • Assessments for adult
services. Transition planning should be undertaken with adult services leading the
assessments process. • Registration of Interest To receive more information on this
procurement interested parties must register their interest to the CCG Procurement e
mail address (GRECCG.procurement@nhs.net). Interested parties will then receive a
Memorandum of Information (MOI) containing additional information about the services
required and the procurement process. Interested parties wishing to be formally involved
in the procurement process and receive the PQQ documentation (following a review of
the MOI) will then be required to submit a formal EOI to
GRECCG.procurement@nhs.net in accordance with the instructions contained in the
MOI. Formal EOI's must be received by 12 noon 30th October 2014.
Estimated length of the contract 01/04/2015 - 31/03/2020
Estimated value £7,700,000 - £7,700,000
Email GRECCG.procurement@nhs.net