Community End of Life Care

Concepts

• wolverhampton
• health services
• life care
• community staff
• community end
• the community teams
• care
• community
• lymphoedema service
• palliative lymphoedema

Location

West Midlands England: Dudley borough

Description

Community End of Life Care: Lymphoedema Service The ICB is awarding this contract via Direct Award Process C. The total contract value is £458,100.

Total Quantity or Scope

Community End of Life Care: Lymphoedema Service from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. The aim of the service is: •To provide holistic and disease specific evidence-based care in the management of patients who have Palliative Lymphoedema (all cause), Secondary/Primary Lymphoedema (all cause), Chronic Oedema (all cause) or Lipidoedema. •To provide an integrated seamless service incorporating the treatment of primary and secondary Lymphoedema. •To prepare and support patients or informal carers with self-management if appropriate. •To offer training of community staff - one session per month for ten individuals. This is formal training consisting of theory and practical sessions on the management of lower limb oedema. •Additionally, the service will provide informal support to district nursing teams, undertake joint visits, and offer on the job support and advice to teams. This will allow non-complex patients to be referred to the community teams for ongoing non-specialist treatment. However, patients can be referred back to the specialist team at any time.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Legal Justification

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. Representations should be sent to: bcicb.contracts@nhs.net. The decision to award the contract was made by the ICB Contracts Team and the Lead Commissioner. No conflicts of interest were identified in reaching the decision to award this contract. This decision has been made as per the Black Country ICB Governance Process. This service has been fully assessed against the key criteria to determine that the provider is satisfying and will continue to satisfy the contract for the period of the contract award.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. Representations should be sent to: bcicb.contracts@nhs.net. The decision to award the contract was made by the ICB Contracts Team and the Lead Commissioner. No conflicts of interest were identified in reaching the decision to award this contract. This decision has been made as per the Black Country ICB Governance Process. This service has been fully assessed against the key criteria to determine that the provider is satisfying and will continue to satisfy the contract for the period of the contract award.