Home Visiting Out of Hours Service — NHS South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group.

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North of England Commissioning Support, working for and on behalf of NHS South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) who wish to commission an Home Visiting Out of Hours Service for South Tyneside.Please note this is a voluntary notice, as healthcare services are currently Part B regime, in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) and therefore compliance to the full regulations is not mandatory. The new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 are now in force, however there is a delay in application of the Light Touch Regime (LTR) to the commissioning of health services for the purposes of the NHS. Regulation 120 provides that the LTR will only apply to the procurement (‘commissioning’) of health services for the purposes of the NHS from 18.4.2016. The basic principles of the Open Procedure will be followed to commission the Home Visiting Out of Hours Service thus ensuring a fair, open and transparent process in accordance with NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013.It is anticipated that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 as amended by the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (TUPE) may apply for this contract. Bidders are advised to form their own view on whether TUPE applies, obtaining their own legal advice and carrying out due diligence. It is the bidders responsibility to verify TUPE information with the incumbent service provider (details of which will be provided in the Tender Documentation).The overall aim is to deliver a clinically safe, more streamlined and integrated urgent care service so that patients are seen, assessed and treated by a single clinician in the patient's home. By using a fully integrated care model with clinicians working collaboratively and flexibly, the service will meet the ‘urgent unscheduled care’ needs (including physical and mental health) of adults, young people and children. The service will provide value for money and be sustainable.The local objectives of the service are to:deliver high quality evidenced based safe health care e.g. latest NICE guidance, patient alerts;achieve excellent patient outcomes e.g. survival, recovery, lack of adverse events and complications;work to agreed clinical and referral care pathways to ensure seamless transition of care between the OOH Home Visiting Service and Primary Care and Community Services including Mental Health Services, Secondary Care or to self-care.support patients in their home prior to hospital admission in times of surge;work collaboratively with the admitting hospital and transport to provide a fluid, integrated admissions process;support patients through integrated links with community services (e.g. district nursing) in order to enable patients to stay in their own homes and avoid unnecessary admissionswork and integrate with the CCG and local GP's to reduce hand-offs.The contracting authority will develop the service model to incorporate the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, specifically:How, what is proposed to be procured, might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the relevant area (area is the geographic area for which the procurement is taking place).How, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing the improvement.Registering an Interest.If your organisation would like to receive a copy of the tender documentation please go to: https://in-Tendhost.co.uk/necs and navigate to NECS020 — South Tyneside CCG Home Visiting Out of Hours Service. Please note that documentation will be available from the 31.3.2016 and the deadline for tender responses is 16:00 on 5.5.2016.Please note that all communications in respect of this procurement exercise will be conducted via the In-Tend portal.It is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time of day. A dedicated helpdesk is available should potential providers have any queries and can be contacted on 0844 2728810 (Monday to Friday 8:00 to 17:00) / support@in-tend.co.uk