Primary Care support for discharge to assess service at LTHT

Concepts

• health services
• ltht
• leeds
• nhs leeds clinical commissioning group
• locally enhanced service for primary care clinical service
• primary care support
• primary care clinical service
• assessment and rehabilitation bed
• overarching aim of the service
• long term care

Location

Leeds

Description

NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (the “Contracting Authority”) is offering a contract to the successful Bidder to provide a Locally Enhanced Service for Primary Care Clinical Service to support the discharge to assess service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The overarching aim of the service is to lead a multi- disciplinary team to develop a proactive approach to assessment and recovery and to develop links between the service and other partners and ensure patients are appropriately assessed, their functions are optimised and they are discharged in a timely manner to the most appropriate community services or long term care. This will be for a period of approximately 2 years with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years

Total Quantity or Scope

The Assessment and Rehabilitation Bed provision is a maximum of 48 patients being cared for across 2 wards at Wharfedale Hospital and 94 patients being cared for across 3 wards at St James’s Hospital that are providing a discharge to assess service. The CCG Partnership is interested in a lead/single provider model to provide a primary care clinical service to the patients being cared for by the discharge to assess service at these facilities for a period of approximately 2 years with the option to extend up to a further 2 years. The service provider will be expected to work closely with several other partners; ARB provider and their staff, therapy and nursing teams, relevant Neighbourhood Teams, Adult Social Care, community pharmacy, community geriatricians, other GP practices with an interest in the patient/ service and Out of Hour Providers; for younger patients, advice and support will be provided through relevant system partners depending on their presenting conditions. The planned start date is 14th April 2021 with an end date of 31st March 2023 with an option to extend by up to 2 years

Renewal Options

Option to extend by up to 2 years

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

The Services to which this Procurement relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the ‘Regulations’). As such, the procurement of the Services is being run as a bespoke, single-stage application process akin to the Open Procedure. NHS Leeds CCG does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 services