--- title: "Reducing Health Inequalities Around Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness - SMI Champion - Calderdale Cares Partnership" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-feb05cf1-5ef7-410a-88e3-2da26baefee8" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-feb05cf1-5ef7-410a-88e3-2da26baefee8" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-feb05cf1-5ef7-410a-88e3-2da26baefee8.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-feb05cf1-5ef7-410a-88e3-2da26baefee8.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "NHS WEST YORKSHIRE" published: "2023-01-30" --- # Reducing Health Inequalities Around Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness - SMI Champion - Calderdale Cares Partnership Buyer: NHS WEST YORKSHIRE Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-feb05cf1-5ef7-410a-88e3-2da26baefee8 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-feb05cf1-5ef7-410a-88e3-2da26baefee8) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-feb05cf1-5ef7-410a-88e3-2da26baefee8.json) ## Summary The Calderdale Cares Partnership, represented by NHS West Yorkshire, is planning a procurement process titled "Reducing Health Inequalities Around Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness - SMI Champion". This falls under the health services industry category and is located in Halifax, Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom. The procurement stage is currently at the planning phase, with an upcoming milestone of the engagement end date set for 10th February 2023. This tender opportunity aims to address health disparities for individuals with severe mental illness by enhancing access to physical health checks. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) are well-suited to compete for this opportunity. Businesses with expertise in healthcare services, particularly in primary care settings, communication, multidisciplinary collaboration, and primary care data analysis, can find this tender conducive for growth and meaningful impact in reducing health inequalities. ## Notice WYICB (Calderdale Cares Partnership) are seeking a provider to support the Reducing Health Inequalities around Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental Illness programme. The aim of this service is to support a reduction in health inequalities for people with SMI by increasing access to PHC and improving the quality of this experience. This one year, non-recurrent funding from NHS England will increase staffing capacity for targeted work across Calderdale by developing a leadership and training champion role that can consistently increase best practice across the PCN's. This provision will work alongside existing staff, with a particular focus on Primary Care staff. The aim is to support and encourage practices to increase both access to and the quality of the physical health checks to reduce health inequalities for people with SMI. This increased support will encourage practices to use the available health information and co-designed resources, completion of Health Action Plans and to increase tests and interventions that reduce the risk of preventable health conditions. High level objectives of the service are: - To provide leadership and educational approaches to staff delivering the health checks and other practice staff, to increase the uptake and quality of SMI Health checks and Health Action Plans. - To provide training for staff to support sustainable change around best practice in a consistent manner across the multidisciplinary teams in PCN's. - To support consistent use of commissioned resources such as the co-designed practice resource pack, patient invitation letters and films to support best practice across Calderdale. - To support the 21 GP practices in Calderdale and their patients registered with an SMI, to promote a personalised care approach including positive lifestyle changes. - To support work with a range of multi-agency services such as VCSE and Mental health practitioners to promote integrated working to reduce health inequalities. Specific service elements inc but not limited to: - To provide leadership and training around developing consistent best practice - To provide a high level of communication and multidisciplinary working - To have knowledge and experience of working in primary care - To use available clinical system data to identify and target effective strategies for using best practice for people with SMI in PCNs and GP surgeries - To work closely alongside existing practitioners to ensure a collaborative approach - To support staff across PCN's delivering PHC both directly and indirectly The NHS E funding of approx. 110K, is non recurrent and an approach is proposed that supports building best practice and resources that will continue in the PCN's after the role has ended. Due to the specialist nature of this work, this would not be suitable for agency staff. Severe mental illness (SMI) and physical health inequalities: briefing - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Additional information: If you would like to submit your interest for this service, please express your interest by registering on https://nhsleedsccg.app.jaggaer.com and complete the questions included in PQQ_35. Once registered, potential providers will be able to complete and upload their submission. Calderdale Cares Partnership has the right to withdraw this notice. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bd6f8766-786f-45e7-8aa0-519d093f26e0 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 30 Jan 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 10 Feb 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NHS WEST YORKSHIRE | | Locality | HALIFAX | | Post town | Halifax | | Postcode | HX1 1PW | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber | | ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire | | ITL 3 | TLE44 Calderdale and Kirklees | | Local authority | Calderdale | | Electoral ward | Town | | Westminster constituency | Halifax | | Delivery location | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85100000 - Health services ## Release History - 30 Jan 2023 at 14:26 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bd6f8766-786f-45e7-8aa0-519d093f26e0 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bd6f8766-786f-45e7-8aa0-519d093f26e0 30th January 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://nhsleedsccg.app.jaggaer.com eProcurement portal ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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