Award

Personal Independence Coordinators across South West London

NHS SOUTH WEST LONDON CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP

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Award

12 May 2021 at 10:56

Summary of the contracting process

The NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group is awarding a contract for the provision of Personal Independence Coordinators across South West London. This interim contract, valued at £900,000 for a duration of 12 months starting from 1st August 2021 until 31st July 2022, may be extended for an additional 12 months, bringing the total potential value to £1,802,000. This service falls under the health and social work services industry category, specifically targeting vulnerable individuals requiring coordinated care within the Croydon region. The procurement method employed is limited, with the award procedure conducted without prior publication of a call for competition, indicating a targeted approach toward selecting suppliers.

This tender presents significant business growth opportunities, particularly for companies specialising in health and social care services, especially those experienced in supporting frail and vulnerable populations. Businesses that can provide integrated care coordination, case management, and proactive health support are well-suited to compete. The role of Personal Independence Coordinators is central to enhancing the resilience and independence of individuals, thereby creating spaces for innovative service providers to demonstrate their capabilities in addressing patient needs through comprehensive care strategies.

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Notice Title

Personal Independence Coordinators across South West London

Notice Description

The Personal Independence Coordinators (PIC) service provides personalised care support for adults who are frail, vulnerable and in need of proactive, preventative care, enabling individuals to receive the right health and social care to meet their needs. PICs are core members of the Croydon Integrated Community Network multi agency GP huddles and the local integrated locality teams (ICN+). The service ensures that care planning is influenced by the wishes identified by the individuals themselves so that independence can be improved or maintained, ensuring that people have a stronger voice in relation to issues that affect their lives. PICs provide critical links between formal health and social care services and the wider community support networks to provide a holistic integrated care programme. They help avoid medium to high-risk people attending hospital unnecessarily whilst become better informed about how to maintain their health and independence.

Lot Information

Lot 1

The service will provide care coordination and / or case management for frail and vulnerable individuals who are eligible for the service. This includes: * Provision of a service Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:00pm or as appropriate. * Attending GP Huddles weekly or fortnightly as agreed with GP practices. * Undertaking a holistic, person-centred assessment and guided conversation in partnership with the individual, supporting the individual to consider and set their own goals with encouragement to recognise what is important to them * Working collaboratively with GP Practices, Hospital, Community Health, Social Care, Mental Health, Hospice and Voluntary sector partners in an integrated, whole system approach to support holistic care management including how to support "Making Every Contact Count" * Liaising with GP Huddle Network Facilitators, GPs and other ICN core team members to proactively identify individuals who might benefit from being discussed at GP Huddles. This will include proactively using available risk stratification tools to support the identification of vulnerable people who might benefit from support from the service * Provide case management support, depending on need. This should address: * Access to other services which could include providing hospital and other health and care appointment coordination support as required through telephone reminder or arranging for the individual to be physically accompanied to hospital especially for people with dementia, * Proactively managing communication with the Patient's GP and other relevant ICN core team members to include discharge letters or PIC Summary) to the individual's GP practice within the target time indicated in the service key performance indicators following discharge * Be a general care coordinator to ensure health and care are linked up and not duplicating to ensure wrap-around support for the person * Exploring ways to continue appointment coordination once PIC intervention has concluded * Case managing individuals for up to 6 or 12 weeks, depending on the level of need of the client. * Provide timely and focused support enabling Clients to achieve goals which focus on maintaining and developing daily living skills and build the confidence to carry them out independently, or with a minimum level of support. * Promoting health and wellbeing and self-care / self-management approaches to enable greater independence and a better health and care experience * Monitoring progress and achievement of goals with individuals by reviewing and, where appropriate, agreeing 'stretch' goals to increase confidence and acknowledgement of progress made * Forming proactive relationships with individuals and their families and carers where appropriate * Demonstrating good local knowledge of the range of voluntary and community services available to support people * Facilitating timely access to appropriate services for individuals through signposting or assisting individuals to navigate appropriate services as required * Promoting health and wellbeing and self-care / self-management approaches to enable greater independence and a better health and care experience * Acting as a key advocate for the individuals as and when required or signposting to advocacy services in that particular area of interest * Contributing to the reduction of preventable A&E attendances and unplanned emergency hospital admissions by supporting and enabling individuals, their family and carers to become better at self-management and accessing self-management support * Undertaking customer feedback and using peoples experience to inform improvements and in future service developments and design. * Lengths of intervention will be assessed through a complexity tool which will establish the complexity of the goals identified and their time impact. * Initiate MyCMC plans with clients as appropriate Additional information: This interim contract is for 12 months (1st August 2021 until 31st July 2022) with a value of PS900,000. Rights are reserved to extend for up to a further 12 months (24 months maximum) with an overall potential value of up to PS1,802,000. Rights are also reserved to novate this contract, during the life of the new contract, to a local NHS Trust acting as local system leader for this and related service contracts.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-02b010
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010399-2021
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Limited
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services


CPV Codes

85000000 - Health and social work services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£1,802,000 £1M-£10M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
12 May 20214 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
11 May 20214 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS SOUTH WEST LONDON CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP
Contact Name
Daniele Serdoz
Contact Email
daniele.serdoz@swlondon.nhs.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SW19 1RH
Post Town
South West London
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI6 Outer London - South
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI63 Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton
Delivery Location
TLI62 Croydon

Local Authority
Merton
Electoral Ward
Wimbledon Town & Dundonald
Westminster Constituency
Wimbledon

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

AGE UK CROYDON

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