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Care Navigation and social prescribing

NHS NORTH CENTRAL LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

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24 Apr 2025 at 10:21

UK5 - Transparency Notice
Summary of the contracting process

NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board has completed the procurement process for its "Care Navigation and Social Prescribing" services in London, as outlined in the tender with ID C337316. This procurement, under the category of community services, aims to integrate community-based navigation and social prescribing alongside existing health and social care services. The procurement has been conducted through a direct award method, justified by the technical necessity of the service, and represents a full contract cycle scheduled from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026. This initiative is crucial for addressing the community's health and wellbeing needs, particularly targeting outcomes such as reducing hospital admissions and fostering independent living for older populations in Camden, a region witnessing a significant increase in its elderly demographic.

The awarded contract, valued at £464,898, has been extended to AGE UK Camden, an SME with a strong community focus, suited for delivering services to the elderly and marginalised communities. This agreement provides a substantial opportunity for suppliers specialising in social care and well-being services, particularly those equipped to offer innovative health solutions, guidance services, and those interested in collaboration with public authorities. Companies in the service industry catering to health promotion, elderly care, and social integration can leverage this tender to establish a significant presence in the public sector, potentially influencing health outcome frameworks and community health initiatives in the region.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Care Navigation and social prescribing

Notice Description

Community-based integrated navigation and social prescribing service, alongside traditional statutory health and social care services to help promote, provide practical options and support people to make positive choices to enabling good health and emotional well-being. These preventative interventions put in place help provide support to residents earlier within community settings, helping to reduce and delay the need for costly interventions. The contract will be signed once the standstill period has terminated, for the period from 01/04/25 to 31/03/26.

Procurement Information

Care navigation and social prescribing services are about using community-based services, alongside traditional statutory health and social care services to help improve health and wellbeing. Local non-clinical social prescribing services support people to make positive choices to promote good health and emotional well-being and can often provide a practical option that can support existing medical treatments for patients. The preventative interventions put in place by social prescribing services help provide support to residents earlier, helping to reduce and delay the need for costly interventions. Nationally, social prescribing models have been promoted and the NHS Five Year Forward View (FYFV) has highlighted the benefits of social prescribing and care navigation services, evidencing reductions in visits to accident and emergency, out-patient appointments and hospital admissions. A number of care navigation pilots across the country have evidenced positive outcomes including: * Significant reduction in psychological distress and mental health problems * Reductions in GP consultations and prescribed medication * Increase in patient confidence in managing their long-term conditions (LTC) * Reductions in readmissions for stroke * Inpatient, A&E and outpatient attendances reduced by 20-21% and * Hospital admissions decrease by 72%. One area reported an estimated PS1,365 cost saving per patient. It is clear from the evidence highlighted that having an enhanced care navigation service will enable people with LTCs to achieve a better quality of life and provide value for money for both NHS and Social Care services. Local Context - The current Joint Strategic Needs Assessment describes the current and future health and wellbeing needs of Camden's local population, including older people and people of a working age. Older people are the fastest growing age group in Camden. Despite high average life expectancy, people over 65 face an excessive burden of poverty, isolation and caring responsibilities. Services that help face these health issues, tackle social isolation, and help maintain independent lives are essential to this growing population group. There are currently almost 28,000 people over 65 in Camden and this number is expected to increase to approximately 35,000 in the next ten years (25% increase). Older people are more likely to live in social housing than any other age group; a quarter of older people live in poverty and over 40% live alone. More than half of all older people are overweight or obese; almost half (44%) have two or more long-term conditions, the most common of which is diabetes (17%). NHS Outcome Framework Domains & Indicators - The key outcomes of the services are to: * Decrease the use of unplanned acute services by increasing the access of hard to reach, marginalised, and BME communities to mainstream non-acute services by strengthening the delivery of health promotion, prevention and the wider determinants of health. * Increase the awareness of 'hard to reach', 'marginalised', and BME communities on the delivery of health promotion and prevention interventions. * Increase in the number of people identified and supported to manage long-term conditions. * Increase people's ability to live independently in the community. * Decrease in the number of avoidable emergency admissions to hospital and decrease in accessing primary care. * Deliver a service aligned to the principles of the strengths based approach. * Increase collaborative working across the health, local authority and community and voluntary sector with consequent reduction in costs. The contract will be signed once the standstill period has terminated, for the period from 01/04/25 to 31/03/26.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-0506d9
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016724-2025
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK5 - Transparency Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services

CPV Codes

85312310 - Guidance services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£464,898 £100K-£500K
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
24 Apr 202510 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
24 Apr 202510 months ago
Contract Period
24 Apr 2025 - 31 Mar 2026 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

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

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS NORTH CENTRAL LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
nclicb.nclcontractqueries@nhs.net
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
N1 1TH
Post Town
North London
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI4 Inner London - East
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI43 Haringey and Islington
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Islington
Electoral Ward
Laycock
Westminster Constituency
Islington South and Finsbury

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

AGE UK CAMDEN

Further Information

Notice Documents

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