Adult Healthy Behavior Service Market Engagement

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  "date": "2026-03-19T16:55:40Z",
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    "title": "Adult Healthy Behavior Service Market Engagement",
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    "legalBasis": {
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    "description": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Market Engagement Notice. The procurement of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this procurement.\nIntroduction\nCroydon Council are looking to procure an Adult Healthy Behaviours Service, providing structured support for smoking cessation, alcohol reduction and overweight / obesity weight management.\nThe aim of the service is to:\nContribute to the reduction in health inequalities, including socio-economic, ethnic and gender inequalities.\nIncrease life expectancy in the borough by actively targeting specific priority groups.\nReduce differences in healthy life expectancy between communities.  Targeting services at residents at the greatest risk of poor healthy life expectancy.\nContribute to the reduction of preventable ill health by reducing heart disease, stroke, and some cancers.\nImprove health outcomes and quality of life, with a better chance of putting in place positive ways to substantially reduce the risk of cardiovascular morbidity, premature death, or disability.\nThe service is required to provide support which allows individuals to modify their behaviour. To reduce risk factors that contribute to early death and reduced quality of life namely:\nSmoking: \nContribute to the overall reduction of the number of people that smoke.\nHealthy Weight: \nPromote a healthy weight amongst adults to reduce rates of obesity and overweight. \nAlcohol Identification and Brief Advice: \nPromote knowledge of the harms caused by excessive alcohol consumption.  To screen those residents drinking at increasing and high-risk levels.\nNutrition: \nIncrease knowledge around the nutritional content of foods, by raising awareness to harms caused by energy dense foods that are high in fats and sugars as well as by the promotion of healthy nutritional diets.\nHealth Promotion: \nDeliver opportunistic health education advice to further promote access to health and wellbeing e.g., being physically active, dental care, immunisations and screening, flu jabs, or NHS Health Checks.\nTo promote Better Health national campaigns.\nService Design\nTo address the needs of those in priority groups and areas of high Indices of Deprivation we will be procuring the following model:\nA lead provider, working in collaboration with local voluntary, community and faith sector (VCFS) providers to deliver a neighbourhood-based Adult Healthy Behaviours service.\nThis will allow us to provide better outcomes for residents, reflect population needs, address service challenges and maximise opportunities.\nMarket Engagement Event\nWe wish to invite prospective service providers as well as Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector (VCFS) representatives. To outline our requirements, answer questions, as well as begin conversations between providers and the VCFS, as to how they can best work together.\nDate: \t\tApril 16th 2026\nTime:\t\t2.00pm – 5.00pm\nPlace:\t\tThe Braithwaite Hall, Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, \nCroydon CR0 1NX\nPlease register your interest to attend by clicking on the Express your Interest button, and send us a message including the following details:\nYour Organization name.\nName & Job title of the delegates.\nEmail addresses of delegates.\nOn behalf of Croydon Council, we look forward to your attendance.",
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        "locality": "Croydon",
        "postalCode": "CR01EA",
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        "streetAddress": "Bernard Wetherill House, Fell Road"
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