Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-12-24
Buyer: NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services

Technical requirements: NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) – Market Engagement — Integrated Healthcare Services to HMP YOI Cookham Wood
NHS E and NHS I South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest to attend a market engagement event from suitably qualified and experienced prime providers, to provide a health and well-being service to Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institute (YOI).
NHSE will commission a prime provider model for the provision of services and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.
NHS E and NHS I South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest to attend a market engagement event from suitably qualified and experienced prime providers, to provide a health and well-being service to Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institute (YOI).
HMP Cookham Wood is a YOI in Rochester, Kent for boys and young men aged 15–18 years. The average length of stay is 2-3 months, although there are increasing numbers of longer sentences that will involve transition to the adult secure estate. The health and well-being service will be required to provide an integrated model of emotional, mental and physical health service provision (including substance misuse interventions). The service will seek to promote all aspects of health and will work in close collaboration with other key partners. The recent implementation of an integrated care framework (SECURE STAIRS) across the children and young persons (CYPs) secure estate nationally has significantly increased the investment in psychologically informed services. The service will offer a seamless experience of person centred care from the point of entry to the point of release or transition to other settings to ensure effective continuity of care.
— mental health and emotional well-being services including: primary and secondary mental health and learning disability services; access to a range of psychologically informed interventions appropriate for young people; a programme of support that promotes and enables health and well-being,
— responsibility for ensuring pharmacy services: Inc mechanism for OOH provision and medicine management service delivery,
— appropriate specialist health provision for example: optometry, physiotherapy, occupational therapy,
— close collaboration with the education and training provider to develop a shared health curriculum and working partnership that supports young people with emotional and health needs in the classroom,
— effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services where appropriate,
— the provider may potentially be responsible for social care provision following assessment, subject to co-commissioning arrangements with local authorities,
— the provider will also be responsible for ensuring the delivery of appropriate reflective supervision to non-healthcare staff.
NHSE will commission a prime provider model for the provision of services and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.
Following market engagement held by the Commissioner in November 2019 for integrated healthcare services for the wider Kent and Medway prisons, a further engagement event is being held on the 20.1.2019 to gain a better understanding of market interest in Cookham Wood as a stand alone secure setting; this will help inform the wider lotting and procurement strategy.
The event will also be an opportunity to discuss the opportunities and barriers to providing healthcare services within this YOI establishment and will include an opportunity to tour the setting. The Commissioners and Governor are keen to hear from healthcare providers with a history of healthcare service delivery to CYPs with complex needs in community and/or secure settings.