Notice Information
Notice Title
Post-Graduate Diploma (PgDip) Specialist Mental Health Paramedic
Notice Description
WMAS are seeking to introduce and develop a new paramedic development and career pathway to enable a specialism in mental health crisis care within the pre-hospital ambulance setting which will see paramedics working autonomously as mental health professionals. In doing so it has identified a requirement for formal education and qualification, provided by a UK Higher Education Institution, to ensure that clinicians have sufficient knowledge to support specialist clinical practice.
Lot Information
Lot 1
West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust (WMAS), working in partnership with West Midlands Integrated Care Boards, is committed to delivering improvements in the delivery of care to patients presenting with mental health needs. The NHS Long Term Plan identifies an intent to both further ambulance clinicians understanding of mental health and introduce mental health response vehicles. In delivering against the above national strategic objections, WMAS are seeking to introduce and develop a new paramedic development and career pathway to enable a specialism in mental health crisis care within the pre-hospital ambulance setting which will see paramedics working autonomously as mental health professionals. In doing so it has identified a requirement for formal education and qualification, provided by a UK Higher Education Institution, to ensure that clinicians have sufficient knowledge to support specialist clinical practice. The Authority (WMASUNHSFT) is procuring a single supplier for the provision of delivering a Post-Graduate Diploma (PgDip) Specialist Mental Health Paramedic qualification. This will be for seventeen (17) staff 'students' with the option to increase in future with the needs of the Authority.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-040734
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029010-2023
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
80300000 - Higher education services
80320000 - Medical education services
80400000 - Adult and other education services
80430000 - Adult-education services at university level
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £110,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £110,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 2 Oct 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 13 Nov 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- WEST MIDLANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- ashley.warner@wmas.nhs.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7721819924
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BRIERLEY HILL
- Postcode
- DY5 1LX
- Post Town
- Dudley
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLG West Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLG3 West Midlands
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLG36 Dudley
- Delivery Location
- TLG3 West Midlands
-
- Local Authority
- Dudley
- Electoral Ward
- Brierley Hill & Wordsley South
- Westminster Constituency
- Stourbridge
Further Information
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