Awarded

East Staffordshire — Improving Lives.

Descriptions

East Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is responsible for the commissioning of healthcare services for 136 000 patients across the Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter area. The CCG wished to significantly transform the way services for long term conditions, intermediate care and frail elderly are delivered across East Staffordshire. There are an estimated 38 000 adults across East Staffordshire with a Long Term Condition, of which 6 000 are defined as frail elderly. Current data, clinical evidence and feedback from our patients provides a compelling need to change in order to ensure that all patients with long term conditions and/or are frail elderly, and their carers, get the safe and high quality services they need to improve their life experience and outcomes. In line with national and local policy, East Staffordshire CCG will move to a model through the successful provider which aims to reduce unscheduled care activity in adults aged 19 and over and supports and enables patients and their carers to maintain maximum control and independence, empowers and supports self-care and self-management where this is the patient's preference; integrates health and social care and across sectors of provision; utilises modern remote monitoring and self-care technologies as appropriate; improves health outcomes; reduces inequalities and rebalances delivery towards domiciliary and community provision from bed based models. The services in scope include a range of identified NHS community and acute based services including but not limited to: specific community based specialist and generalist nursing services, acute based non elective admissions, and identified outpatient first and follow ups and procedures; out of hours and 111; Third Sector Contracts /Non-NHS Contracts/Grants.In order to achieve this vision, the CCG have commissioned a prime contractor via an outcome based, long term contract. There are a range of services, outside of the main acute and community services contracts, commissioned by East Staffordshire CCG, that are not currently in scope. This includes but is not limited to: — Primary Care — Enhanced services. Although these services are not within scope, the provider will be expected to work in close alignment with the providers of these services and other providers of services not directly commissioned by East Staffordshire CCG. This will ensure integration across the wider system, recognising the interdependencies of services and the potential impact the relationship between them will have on improved outcomes for patients and carers in East Staffordshire and across the system.The original contract notice detailed that the CCG was working with Staffordshire County Council (the ‘Council’) relating to the possible integration of adult social services with the NHS services covered by this procurement. The Council did not participate in this procurement and its relevant adult social care services did not fall within the scope of the contract.The contract is for seven years, with services commencing on 1.4.2016.