Contract for the Provision of Intermediate Care Plus Beds (Block Purchase)

Lot 1 A East for IC+ Block Beds;-

The service will:

• Promote rehabilitation, recovery and recuperation enabling service users to attain the optimum level of independence through the provision of both personal care and practical support.
• Support service users who would otherwise face unnecessary, prolonged hospital stays or avoidable admissions to acute care, long-term residential care or high-level independent care packages.
• Provide a setting for an intermediate level of care over a short time spell which minimises the risk of a person being re-admitted to a hospital due to an untimely or poorly planned discharge to their own home.
• Facilitate and allow for continuing supervision in a more appropriate setting when an acute hospital bed is no longer required.
• Provide a service that is time-limited, normally lasting no longer than 6 weeks and often much less.
• Provide, on the basis of a documented, structured, individual care plan, input that maximises independence and enables service users to live at home as independently as possible.
• Expedite planned, effective early hospital discharge into the service.

Lot 1 B East for IC+ Block Beds;-

The service will:

• Promote rehabilitation, recovery and recuperation enabling service users to attain the optimum level of independence through the provision of both personal care and practical support.
• Support service users who would otherwise face unnecessary, prolonged hospital stays or avoidable admissions to acute care, long-term residential care or high-level independent care packages.
• Provide a setting for an intermediate level of care over a short time spell which minimises the risk of a person being re-admitted to a hospital due to an untimely or poorly planned discharge to their own home.
• Facilitate and allow for continuing supervision in a more appropriate setting when an acute hospital bed is no longer required.
• Provide a service that is time-limited, normally lasting no longer than 6 weeks and often much less.
• Provide, on the basis of a documented, structured, individual care plan, input that maximises independence and enables service users to live at home as independently as possible.
• Expedite planned, effective early hospital discharge into the service.

Lot 2B South for IC+ Block Beds;-

The service will:

• Promote rehabilitation, recovery and recuperation enabling service users to attain the optimum level of independence through the provision of both personal care and practical support.
• Support service users who would otherwise face unnecessary, prolonged hospital stays or avoidable admissions to acute care, long-term residential care or high-level independent care packages.
• Provide a setting for an intermediate level of care over a short time spell which minimises the risk of a person being re-admitted to a hospital due to an untimely or poorly planned discharge to their own home.
• Facilitate and allow for continuing supervision in a more appropriate setting when an acute hospital bed is no longer required.
• Provide a service that is time-limited, normally lasting no longer than 6 weeks and often much less.
• Provide, on the basis of a documented, structured, individual care plan, input that maximises independence and enables service users to live at home as independently as possible.
• Expedite planned, effective early hospital discharge into the service.

Lot 2 A South for IC+ Block Beds;-

The service will:

• Promote rehabilitation, recovery and recuperation enabling service users to attain the optimum level of independence through the provision of both personal care and practical support.
• Support service users who would otherwise face unnecessary, prolonged hospital stays or avoidable admissions to acute care, long-term residential care or high-level independent care packages.
• Provide a setting for an intermediate level of care over a short time spell which minimises the risk of a person being re-admitted to a hospital due to an untimely or poorly planned discharge to their own home.
• Facilitate and allow for continuing supervision in a more appropriate setting when an acute hospital bed is no longer required.
• Provide a service that is time-limited, normally lasting no longer than 6 weeks and often much less.
• Provide, on the basis of a documented, structured, individual care plan, input that maximises independence and enables service users to live at home as independently as possible.
• Expedite planned, effective early hospital discharge into the service.

Please access the NEPO Procontract Portal reference DN621264 for full details of the specification in ITT Document 2 Part 1 Contract specification.

Lot 3 A North for IC+ Block Beds;-

The service will:

• Promote rehabilitation, recovery and recuperation enabling service users to attain the optimum level of independence through the provision of both personal care and practical support.
• Support service users who would otherwise face unnecessary, prolonged hospital stays or avoidable admissions to acute care, long-term residential care or high-level independent care packages.
• Provide a setting for an intermediate level of care over a short time spell which minimises the risk of a person being re-admitted to a hospital due to an untimely or poorly planned discharge to their own home.
• Facilitate and allow for continuing supervision in a more appropriate setting when an acute hospital bed is no longer required.
• Provide a service that is time-limited, normally lasting no longer than 6 weeks and often much less.
• Provide, on the basis of a documented, structured, individual care plan, input that maximises independence and enables service users to live at home as independently as possible.
• Expedite planned, effective early hospital discharge into the service.

Lot 3B North for IC+ Block Beds;-

The service will:

• Promote rehabilitation, recovery and recuperation enabling service users to attain the optimum level of independence through the provision of both personal care and practical support.
• Support service users who would otherwise face unnecessary, prolonged hospital stays or avoidable admissions to acute care, long-term residential care or high-level independent care packages.
• Provide a setting for an intermediate level of care over a short time spell which minimises the risk of a person being re-admitted to a hospital due to an untimely or poorly planned discharge to their own home.
• Facilitate and allow for continuing supervision in a more appropriate setting when an acute hospital bed is no longer required.
• Provide a service that is time-limited, normally lasting no longer than 6 weeks and often much less.
• Provide, on the basis of a documented, structured, individual care plan, input that maximises independence and enables service users to live at home as independently as possible.
• Expedite planned, effective early hospital discharge into the service.