Community Paediatric Therapy Services across Hampshire

Descriptions

Commissioners have been reviewing Integrated Commissioning opportunities with Hampshire County Council and a series of stakeholder events are planned for early 2018 to explore options. Public Health have recently awarded short term contracts to enable the alignment of both Health Visiting and School Nursing contracts; discussions with CCGs have been exploring the possibility of either joint procurement opportunities or having aligned contracts with Health. Options are being explored and the CCG commissioners are developing an options appraisal that will help inform decision-making regarding any integrated service opportunities. As discussions are still progressing regarding joint commissioning, the CCGs are proposing to extend the current Paediatric Integrated Therapies Service by Direct Awarding a new contract until 31.3.2020. This extension Direct Award is being sought on current contract value with no additional investment other than any national uplifts and the same Service Specification. This Prior Information Notice is to inform the market of the extension to the current Paediatric Integrated Therapies Service under a Direct Award contract until 31.3.2020. Further full information can be found on the In-Tend portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home